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Business Models
Open source software is a frequently used program within
modern day society. Programs like Firefox and Thunderbird
are examples of programs that use open source software.
Open source software programs like these have played a
pivotal role in building the internet's baseline framework.
Because these open source software programs are easily
accessible and open to everyone, it presents a lot of
competition for other closed software programs like Safari
and Internet Explorer NYTimes.com.
Also, Open Source has become a business program that has
lowered the scales of software economies. Because of this,
Open Source software programs have created newer and more
tradition business models for the economy and has put
large software companies, like Oracle, Microsoft, and
SAP, back on their heels businessweek.com
. Also, the fact that open source is open to everyone
and can be freely used present this inner competition
between the closed source programs and the open source
programs. Because open source software is more service
base then product based, companies will charge for services
from individuals because of the customization process.
The open source software is an open program, that consists
of many different software programmers coming together
to create a final project. The issue with this is that
it creates a problem if something crashes within the system.
Because so many different people contributed to the software
program, it would be difficult to find the correct person
fix the exact problem. This leads into the matter of Service
and Security.
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