Open Source: Sharing is Awesome!

It is my personal belief that code should be free to access for all, naturally there may be some exceptions such as security and finance, but other than those exceptions free code for all promotes a public that is more eager to learn how to code and use that code beneficially.

Free source code is simple known as Open Source and code that is not readily available to the public is called Closed Source. Open Source gives all users free license and does not require any paid fees to use their software and it is great for group collaborative efforts or projects that are team developed. Free code is great for providing code already created and preventing time spent on redundant coding.

However, there are some pitfalls of Open Source. Namely in its greatest benefit of providing free code is that those that wish malicious intent can use that free code to better understand how to get through security loop holes of that code or create viruses and malware intended to wreak havoc.

Despite the having the lower end of security as opposed to Closed Source code, Open source is great when it comes to having users come together and collaborate on development teams, forums on the internet, threads targeted and solving problems. Open Source simply promotes group development, research, and collaboration thus resulting in greater discovery and development.

I am pro Open Source all the way!


http://opensource.org/