Open Source software
If you want to be able to have access to the code your software is using, you may be excited about open source software. With this type of software, any user can alter or copy code. This allows the software to be self-regulated by the community. Commercial software does not allow just anyone to see its source code. Both types of software have their positives and negatives. Open source software has become very popular and you can find it in many different categories. Here I would like to discuss three different examples of open source software. Mozilla Firefox is a very popular web browser. Many people probably do not even realize that it is open source. What is great about having a web browser that is open source is that if anything goes wrong the community can fix it easily. In an article by Apple Insider, research was conducted on the speed and processing power used while running Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. The outcome was that Safari uses a lot more processing powe...