1. Why do People Prefer Using Open
Source Software?

3. Open Source Software
Open Source - Developer allow to user to read, modified and
shared the software.
The Number of big business and government organization use
Open source software.
Open Source software proves that price has not defined the
quality of software.
The biggest benefit of open source is that everybody can
access the source code.

4. Benefits of Open Source Software
Freedom
Quality
Flexibility
Security
Support Options

5. Freedom
With Free open source software (FOSS), users can control the
software and they changes the software according to own
requirements.
Open source makes a worldwide community of developers and
users where you can discuss all queries.
The users not only access open source software, but may also
control and modify it.

6. Quality
In an open source community, there are countless developers
and users working to improve the security, suggest many
innovative features.
User also involve to the development of open source software
so developer do what they want.
The open source platform gives unbeatable and innovative
software.

7. Flexibility
When the user uses the platform software like Microsoft
Windows and Office, these are required to keep upgrading
both software.
Open source software requires less resources, meaning that
you can run it on older hardware.
Bugs in open source software also tend to get fixed
immediately.

8. Security
Open source software is more secured than other closed source.
Open source is a big community like Red Hat Security response team
and many other larger projects (for example, Apache, Mozilla) have
their own security response teams that's improves software security.
The benefit of using an open source Linux distribution is that
security features are very impressive with Linux Firewall option.

9. Support Options
In present time 80% of the internet platform is based on open
source software.
Open source softwares carry a large community, these
communities are free to share their suggestions and tricks.
Most of Linux distributions have an online community and
forums like Ubuntu, openSUSE, ClearOS etc.

10. Conclusion
Open source software offers a lot of advantages, So these softwares
are very necessary for business.
Here developers and user interconnect with each other, so developers
are working with ease.
More Read Here about Open Source Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software