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= 101 Reasons to use FOSS / Linux = | = 101 Reasons to use FOSS = |
101 Reasons to use FOSS
There are definitely a lot of reasons why we use FOSS / Systems, that's why we are creating this list to help spreading the words to the mass public. It's always an on-going list please feel free to add yours. If you find good source / reference article of benefits explaining some points, please help to link to the relevant points as well.
- Freedom Matters! (Freedom to create, share, invent, collaborate, learn, and modify)
- Free of Cost (Not always but you always have choice)
- Lots of choice, not only what to use but also how to use it
- No Vendor lock in
- FOSS encourages Open Standard (odt, png ..)
- Less Virus (for Linux systems)
- It's the best way to avoid piracy
- Everybody can try and play
- Promote transparency and accountability, you (can) know what you are installing and using
- Lots of community Support, you can even get to talk to the guys who developed the Software
- Cross platform
- Foster real innovation and creativity
- Promote honesty as there are lots of honest quality referees
- It's against monopoly
- Promote free market competition and create lots of business opportunities
- Keen competition helping to keep things move forward
- It doesn't belong to any company, it belongs to us
- Bring people together from all over the world
- The most powerful way to build thing as anybody can just join
- Full of passion and the communities are full of passionate people
- Reward skill, ingenuity, and willingness to learn
- An outcome of cooperation and collaboration
- It succeed on its own merits, crappy Software cannot be propagated by marketing hype
- It doesn't exclude anybody and its door is always open
- Lots of free tutorials online for you to learn as long as you are willing to learn
- It accommodates everybody, from beginner to expert, from children to elder
- It promotes knowledge sharing and allow everybody to learn from each others
- It encourages easy customization, as we don't believe one product suitable for everybody
- It doesn't sacrifice quality as there is no deadline, developers keep working on it until it's perfect
NASA uses FOSS as it allows them to do things at massive scale and low cost
- You are free to localize it and share with your country (esp. for those countries that companies believe they are not profitable for sales)
- FOSS systems are famous for its reliability and stability
- High level of security as a lot of governments use FOSS because of that
- Eye candy e.g. 3D Desktop - Compiz Fusion
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