Do you really need to switch to open source?

That's the most important question we are answering in our web blog. Do we really need to switch to open source and free software? Lets have pros and cons of the chapter. Well, the open source world says "The human knowledge belongs to the world". Richard Stallman was once frustrated by the proprietary thing in software world, and started GNU. Gnu's Not Unix. Since then, the domain of open source world is increasing only. But there's always a positive and negative side of a thing. Lets look at the negative side first.

• Do you think efforts by hundreds of peoples, their time should be free? A simple stand alone software needs hundreds of men, working for hours to be completed. And its released free, that too with the assurance that anyone can modify it according to their needs and can share it with their friends without paying a penny. 
• The open source and free software start competing directly to the proprietary softwares in the market, thus affecting their sales and the efforts of those employees are then not evaluated exactly. 
• Does the 'availability' of source code really need to be there along with freedom to use and share? Why the already completed existing software need to be modified? 
• Source code availability of Linux is one of the factors of a large number of its distributions, which according to some, has affected negatively in competing to Microsoft Windows. 
• Its surely is not for new-bees. A not-so-technical people will find most of the open source thing difficult to handle.

Well in fact, the positive part of open source is almost the same as negative. Lets get to it. 

• Everything is free. Starting from a few kb's you tube down loader to even a full working operating system. 
• The loop holes, bugs and security failures are corrected in less time since the source code is available and all the interested programmers use up their brains to get rid of it. 
• Provides a platform to a geek to learn going through the original codes in which the software is written. 
• Everything is free. No need to buy softwares, games, drivers for your system to run. The overall software costs will may increase the overall hardware cost if you go by the paid software.
• Often, the software or even the Linux OS in itself is difficult to operate. But who the hell want it to be easy? 

Give your points in the comments. Lets have a healthy discussions. I know I missed many points. 
why Linux. have already been discussed in previous posts. 

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