Open Source Software Vs Proprietary Software


Open source Software Proprietary Software
It refers to the software that is developed and tested through open collaboration. It refers to the software that is solely owned by an individual or the organisation that developed it.
Anyone with academic knowledge can access, inspect, modify and redistribute the source code. Only the owner or the publisher who holds the legal rights of the source code can access it.
The project is manned by an open source community or programmers. The project is manned by a closed group of individual or team that developed it.
They are not aimed at unskilled users outside of the programming community. They are focused on the limited market of both skilled and unskilled end userd.
It provides better flexibility that means freadom which encourages innovation. There is very limited scope of innovation with the restrictions and all.
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