The development of open source software involves many people from all over the world who interact via the internet. So came the variety of software made based on open source is published through the internet. This open source pattern has spawned reliable developers from all over the world.
Open source is a term used for software that opens / frees its source code to be viewed by others and lets others know how the software works and simultaneously fix the weaknesses that exist in the software. And interestingly and one of the advantages is that Open source software can be obtained and used for free without paying a license.
Free software described here is also not a legume program. The assumption that the free goods are of poor quality does not apply to free software. Because it has proven its reliability. And because of the free software based on open source then the software has gone through a process of continuous improvement. So there's no reason not to use this free software for reasons of poor quality.
Aribas is getting people interested in switching to open source. The flexibility, transparency, and speed of innovation are some in.
Open source is super agile. Since it is open to the public, feature requests or bug reports can appear at any time. Not to mention the contribution of new code code from other developers who enter the open source program,
there are several companies that do open source of which is WordPress, Mozilla Firefox, and Couchbase. Even, open source trend is not only enjoyed among startup only. Big companies that are famously "closed" to their tech kitchen secrets are now daring to do open source.
One of them is Apple, which provides open source access to their programming language creation, Swift. The same thing is also done Microsoft, which is to enter many open source contributions to the Linux Foundation. In fact, Microsoft is now one of the largest open source contributors in the world.
1.Fun for developers
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open source nature that is open to the public can be very fun for developers.
Developers can get quick input of features from users. In fact, users can immediately suggest what features you want to create and what kind of coding is appropriate to add these features.
In addition, users can also help check and report on bugs.
No less important is the power developer and network effect. Developers will usually be able to new sciences from the open source community that use tools or similar programming languages,
2.Freedom for users
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Not only developers, users of open source services also get various benefits. Among them is transparency, so users can find out the roadmap developer in developing a product, and how the development of a product.
In addition, open source is also forever free. Free here is more towards freedom, or freedom. Users have the freedom to further develop, even sell more products from open source,
3.Got feedback
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Some companies that provide open source for some of its features are AirBnB and Google that open Chromium, the source code provider for the Chrome browser.
Because when you try to open all the code and provide transparency to the developer, it would be nice to have input from the community,
the vision of each developer of a product must be different. So, the execution will also be different. If other developers make other products from your open source product, not necessarily the result will be the same degan product you have.
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