#Kems : The Difference of Open Source and Close Source

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Open Source

Open source is software where the program code is open and provided by the developer in general to be learned, modified or further developed and disseminated. If there is a software maker that does not allow the code to be modified, it is not called open source even though the program code of the software is available.

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Open source (open program code) was popularized in 1998. The history of open source software was born after hacker culture developed in computer labs at American universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT in the 1960s and 1970s Open source operating system is profitable, especially by open source users. Some advantages and disadvantages of open source :
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Advantages

• Many personnel (HR) who play the role of working on the project
• Errors (bugs, errors) are faster to find and fix
• The quality of the results is more secure because the community conducts an evaluation
• Safer
• Save money
• Not repeating development

Deficiency

• Lack of human resources that can take advantage of open source
• Lack of protection against intellectual property rights

Examples An operating system that includes Open Source is :

• Linux: Ubuntu, Red Hat, Mandriva, CentOS, Fedora, Blankon, OpenSUSE, Clear OS
• Open BSD and Free BSD,
• Open Solaris and Solaris
• Android
• Etc

Closed Source

Close source is software whose source code is not open to the public. The owner of the code that close source can share the source code through license, either for free or to pay. Although free, certain licenses can make a software not fully open source. For example if the license there is a ban to modify the code, then this software is not open source.

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The advantage of close source we can know the code making the program. If you already know the code / structure of the program, then we can edit the program as we want. Could be, the paid program becomes free because we edit. That is if the owner of the program would provide the codes for free.

Advantages :

• Excess Close Source
• Linux is free. Free here means not having to buy a license.
• Linux is stable.
• Linux open source. the source code it includes.
• Linux is secure. Linux implements a very secure standard of security protocol.
• Linux is fast and keeps running (running on running), it does not have to be restarted when finished installing the app.
• Lots of support and documentation. Linux and its community provide billions of documentation (Readme, HOWTO, Guide, Manual, Info).
• Linux upholds everyone's independence to be creative.
• Virus-free. Linux is like-Unix, and Unix is virus-free. Why virus free? Because in the Unix operating system, every time will access the system, change, delete, add part of the system, always prompted confirmation password, while the virus does not know the system password except the owner of the system.
• Linux has many options. We can choose Linux according to our taste, a lot of distros (companies that provide Linux operating system) that exist in this earth.
• Linux view is no longer disappointing.

Disadvantages :

• Difficult Operations.
• Linux issued a lot of distributions that make users confused.
• No Linux Game of the same quality as the Windows Games.
• Still Minimum Hardware and Driver Support.
• Software Used Not Available in Linux.
• No Time To Learn.
• Lack of socialization.
• Dependency with pirated software.
• Lack of official support.

Regards,

Kemal13

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