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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Open Source Web Development

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During the last 2 years or so, India has been a victim of Global recession. It caused huge losses to the companies, leaving many as jobless. It further increased the rate of unemployment and made them as bankrupts in the society.
Many of them have assumed that there are no jobs at all in the IT industry and started losing their faith on the private sector as a whole.
In fact, the reality is very different from that of our misconception. Even during the recession, the industry was in need of some potential designers and developers. It was in search of skilled open source web developers and web/graphic designers. So What is Open Source web development? How is it possible for companies to recruit the OSS developers even during the recession? …show more content…

Absolutely no software cost:
Computer requires both the hardware and software for its smooth functioning. The computer software costs more than the hardware, therefore, many users have been deprived of buying it. Instead, they resort to use the illegal version of the software. This does not give them any legal right to own, distribute or use the product in the open environment.
2. No virus attacks:
We often complain of many viruses on our computer, this causes the computer to be formatted at least once a month. Besides this, we are constantly targeted by the spammers. This is primarily due to, the 90% of the computer users highly depend on the commercial softwares for their daily activities. Only the 10 % of the users depend on the open source applications. Therefore, all the spammers and viruses aim at destroying the majority of computers.
Thus, there will always be a less scope for hackers for targeting the open source applications.
Let us take an example from Microsoft, every one of us uses the Windows as our preferred operating system. We constantly receive warnings from spammers, viruses and other notifications about the problems with our illegal versions of Windows. During such occasions, we can neither contact the Microsoft since Windows has been manufactured by it, nor use the illegal and corrupted

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