There will always be talk about whether or not things on the internet should be made public. Here I am, yet again, having two opinions on this topic. I have two different points of view for this discussion. I am going to elaborate on how and why I feel the way I feel.
According to “Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue*”, by Yochai Benkler and Helen Nissenbaum, “We suggest that the emergence of peer production offers an opportunity form more people to engage in practices that permit them to exhibit and experience virtuous behavior”. You never know. This can also be a way in which how we access our information. For example, I am College student who have to do countless amounts of essays; some of which I would have to do research on. This is why I feel that going open source is a viable business model. So that not only myself, but any college student can get can information whenever and wherever they need it. Open sources can allow you to find other sources! This idea should have been made viral a long time ago. The copyright holder can distribute their software to anyone.
“Open source allows free re-distribution of the software without royalties or licensing fees” (“The Political Economy of Open Source Software” by Steven Weber). What does this mean? This means that open source allows any/everyone to obtain any type of information online, just by clicking the search button! Anyone who is interested, could do it if they want to.
On the contrary, open source can potentially be dangerous as well. There can be someone out there who is capable of breaking into a developers code and obtaining everything he/she has created. That is called a “hacker”, which is someone who can break into practically any type of software. If you do plan on creating a software code, just be careful about it.
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