Open Source coding, application, and security superiority:

What makes Open Source software different and supperior is the business, legality, and community behind it. You can use it and modify it for free. This means you can take a pre-existing piece of software, and modify it for your specific needs. This is exactly what happens. People improve it and pass it on and the rules allow for this. This is why the OpenSource has gained the strength that it has.

It evolves unencumbered by ownership. When one person gets tired of taking care of a piece of OpenSource software, another enthusiast takes up the torch, brings a friend, and so on, until that software evolves into an effective mission critical application. The Apache project is a great example of this. It has evolved into the Webserver of choice for the world because of its Open Source foundations.

Open Source software is open for anyone to view the source code. As a result, when bugs are discovered, anyone can fix them. People do fix them. There are so many people using Open Source applications that the community that employ the Open Source applications maintain them. This creates a natural quality assurance process. People fix the code and pass it on. This communal effort creates superior code that evolves much much more quickly than any other model.

Linux is an obvious example of this rapid evolution in software design. Fifteen years ago Linux was available to the sophisticated student of Computer Science. They needed to download drivers to support their respective hardware. It was not easy. Now most versions of Linux will install easily and can be installed by inexperienced users. This is because of the unbelievable growth and support that it has experienced from this community of users. What this means is that this model of coding works, and evolves, and gains momentum.

Former Unix vendors have abandon their entire operating systems in exchange for Linux, demonstrating this competitive edge that the Open Source community has earned. It just doesn't make sense to maintain a Unix O/S when Linux will do a better job. As a result, the Open Source has gone from competitor to cornerstone within corporate world IT, all because of the strong co-operative foundations and persevearance of it's community.

The security of Open Source software is also superior, for the same reason that it outpaced it's competitors. Not because it can be used for free, but because its Open nature naturally made it more secure. Its open nature means that it is more closely scrutinized by everyone, and fixed faster than anything else. The most security sensitive federal deparments in the US government choose Linux as their security operating Systems. They take it, strip it down, shut down everything but the necessary trusted services, and run it as their security platform. When employed by the right people, Open Source Security is the best in the world.

For these reasons and many more, the Open Source software way of delivering open code to it's users is developmentaly superior to anything else. There is really no comparison.

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