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Differences Between Open-Source & commercial products

Fresh on the Open-E Blog! Read the article and later ask yourself: If there was a battle between commercial software and open-source software, which side would you pick and why?

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Pros and cons of free and paid software

The concept of open-source software, apart from the fact that it's for free, is that the source code is open and accessible, the availability of the code allows programmers from around the world to constantly improve it. Commercial proprietary software is a ready-to-go solution, you pay = you get a product and there's no extra work around it.

Sounds simple, but is that really so? Well, the fact is that differences between those two types of products go much further than it might visible at first sight.

Read the article to get the scope of this topic and form your own opinion.