What's keeping you from using open source software?

Open source software (OSS), unlike proprietary software, is software that keeps the code open so IT professionals can alter, improve, and distribute it. Although it has been around since relatively early in the history of computers, in the past several years OSS has truly taken off, in what some might see as a surprising example of a successful communal collaboration.
-
- Login or register to post comments
Printer-friendly version
- 1594 reads
PDF version
More in Tux Machines
- Highlights
- Front Page
- Latest Headlines
- Archive
- Recent comments
- All-Time Popular Stories
- Hot Topics
- New Members
Type | Title | Author | Replies |
Last Post![]() |
---|---|---|---|---|
Story | Android Leftovers | Rianne Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 7:47am | |
Story | Linux Foundation Leftovers | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 7:41am | |
Story | Android/Chrome: GNU/Linux on Chrome OS and Surveillance 'Apps' on Android | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 7:22am | |
Story | FFmpeg 4.0 Released | Roy Schestowitz | 1 | 21/04/2018 - 7:09am |
Story | Mozilla: Virtual Reality in Mixed Reality, Taskcluster Development | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 5:26am | |
Story | OSS Leftovers | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 5:25am | |
Story | today's howtos | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 5:21am | |
Story | Security: Updates, IBM, Elytron and Container Vulnerability Scanning | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 4:45am | |
Story | NetBSD 8.0 RC1 Available, Bringing Initial USB 3.0 Support & Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 4:43am | |
Story | Graphics: AMD, Intel and Vulkan | Roy Schestowitz | 21/04/2018 - 4:05am |
Recent comments
3 hours 21 sec ago
1 day 8 hours ago
1 day 8 hours ago
1 day 20 hours ago
1 day 21 hours ago
2 days 16 hours ago
2 days 17 hours ago
3 days 21 hours ago
5 days 1 hour ago
6 days 8 hours ago