COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIABLE OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

In this computer era, everything works on latest computer technology. Most of the time we work in proprietary commercial environment where we have to pay for its usage. Even we cannot do any kind of changes in the code. The source code for proprietary commercial software is usually a closely guarded secret. They are guarded closely within a corporation and are protected legally by patents and copyrights. To overcome this drawback, facility open source technology is introduced. From the last decade, the open source technology is increased. Numerous amounts of valuable products have produced by Open Source Software communities. The best ever facility provides by Open Source is to open the source code publicly available for the sake of the community. They also publish their software with an open source license means that other developers can see how it works and add to it.  This paper focuses on the comparative study of open source technologies, their issues and benefits. Examples of open source products include Open Office, the internet browser Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, the Linux operating system and its derivative Android, an operating system for mobile devices. Scilab, Octaveare some of the free and open source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.