Open Source is often confused to its alternative commercial software with the benefit of being “free.” But it’s only free when the software is built by the community and not a big corporation. With the ladder, you’ll have to pay some sort of annual subscription. Even with the community built software there still limitations to what you can do with it.
“Free software’ turned out to be an unfortunate label, despite FSF’s vehement attempts to convey the message that free was about freedom, not price, as in the slogan ‘think free speech, not free beer,'” The Political Economy of Open Source
There are pros and cons to open source. The pros, frequent updates by developers that supporting the platform, people will be more personally attached to the product they edited or “created”, with less big companies like Microsoft, there will be more jobs and more diverse job markets. The cons, it will be difficult to use. Open source products are bare bones and very technical for the average person to use. There will be undercuts in value, if I were to create something and Microsoft were to use my idea and tweak something they can sell it for a cheaper value, “The source code is available and users can modify it freely.” The Political Economy of Open Source. there can be too many people with the same or close to the same exact product.
Open source can bring some great things and also some bad things, but nothing would really change.
Recent Comments