Open source means that a software whose source code is available to every one. A programmer can modify the source code of a program. That's why there are number of softwares which belong to open source and each open source software has something different and new.
As open source has given opportunity to programs of changing source code of a program that's why open source softwares are increasing day by day. But it has not affect on the quality of softwares. For example, compare Msn messenger with Skype. You can see a big difference of quality of video and voice chat between these softwares. You can compare open source operating system with Microsoft operating systems.
No doubt Microsoft window has one advantage over open source softwares and that is the feature known as user friendly. Even you can see programming languages of open source such as PHP, Mysql, CMS, and many more. PHP has made possible for those programmers which are not very good in programming to make websites. Content management systems provided by open source are very easy to use and even a non programmer can use these for building websites.
Source code of software which is available to every one is known as open source.
As open source has given opportunity to programs of changing source code of a program that's why open source softwares are increasing day by day. But it has not affect on the quality of softwares. For example, compare Msn messenger with Skype. You can see a big difference of quality of video and voice chat between these softwares. You can compare open source operating system with Microsoft operating systems.
No doubt Microsoft window has one advantage over open source softwares and that is the feature known as user friendly. Even you can see programming languages of open source such as PHP, Mysql, CMS, and many more. PHP has made possible for those programmers which are not very good in programming to make websites. Content management systems provided by open source are very easy to use and even a non programmer can use these for building websites.
Source code of software which is available to every one is known as open source.