Box 1 Is Open Source a thing of the future?
No; Not at all. That’s as bad as saying we don’t have birds flying around. It’s not about having a different perspective here, it’s just a fact. Open source is here. Look around you, look at the browser you’re using, or the mail client you have open, the backend components of the website you’re browsing or maybe even the operating system you might be on. Open source software is everywhere; you just need the eyes for it. Currently Firefox commands 15% of the market share in the browser market, the second largest after Microsoft’s monopoly supported Internet Explorer. Mozilla Thunderbird has now got the ‘Eudora status’ in the world of email clients. Linux is already giving Microsoft a run for its money. Even the Halloween Documents tests secretly carried out by Microsoft clearly established that Linux was as technically competitive or in some ways even better than Microsoft Windows. PHP is undoubtedly ruling the web with a whooping 60% market share which is far more than its proprietary counterparts like ASP.NET.
Ever noticed what’s common about all these technologies? They’re open source.
Open source software has started to offer competition to proprietary software companies in almost every field of software imaginable. The solutions are secure, well supported, cost effective and efficient. Why then should it be a thing of the future when it’s already modifying how we’ll be using software tomorrow. Open source is not a thing of the future, it’s where the future lies.
Feel the difference. The revolution has just begun.
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Faster development
Oops, we mentioned a line about this in the previous section itself. Anyway, the mongrel finally manages to create his brainchild. He uploaded a downloadable and easy-to-install version of his extension on the Mongrella Flamewolf website. Within a span of about 30 nanoseconds, the new extension hits nearly 2,486,546 downloads backed by tons of comments and praises about the new idea. The mongrel thinks, “Insignificant and trivial idea, eh?”
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Future of Open Source
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No; Not at all. That’s as bad as saying we don’t have birds flying around. It’s not about having a different perspective here, it’s just a fact. Open source is here. Look around you, look at the browser you’re using, or the mail client you have open, the backend components of the website you’re browsing or maybe even the operating system you might be on.
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Greater Freedom
As told before, SG sees developers in users. Following the movement that ‘rebels’ started in a distant planet Earth and following the guidelines they had set for building OSS, SG still continues its excellence in building better and better stuff for everyone.
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Open Standards
Also known as Open Formats, Open Standards are much more than just a published specification for storing digital content, media or data. It is a key to freedom.
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