They are intentionally limited to work within the Microsoft ecosystem and designed to limit integration with 3rd party applications. Microsoft's Windows and Office are prime examples. The businesses that make proprietary software want to keep you locked in too. Drupal is a great example, having been adopted widely across the public sector, including cities, towns, universities, and The White House. No need to throw more money at the problem or suffer from software that doesn't meet your needs. You can take it, use it and change it to meet your specific needs. When you buy into proprietary software you are "locked in" to whatever solution that software has to offer. Good luck to all the businesses running it in the meantime. The proprietary software runs the risk of a new bug discovery after a major release and can take much longer for a fix to be applied. While open source software may have more "discovered bugs" than closed sourced alternatives, those bugs are usually discovered before they can cause serious harm and quickly fixed. Expensive proprietary software tends to take the "security through obscurity" argument. Once a bug is discovered, it can often take weeks or months for companies to release a patch for their product. In the world of closed sourced proprietary software, no one outside of the office has a clue what bugs are present. Linus said, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", meaning that the more people looking at and testing a piece of code, the more likely that a problem will be noticed, fixed, and fixed quickly. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, first coined this idea and it has been named "Linus' Law". Not much can slip by when thousands of eyeballs are sifting through it every day. Here are five benefits for adopting open source software in business: Open source software has seen massive growth and acceptance in the business world, and for good reason. As a result, open source software has its benefits - cost, flexibility, freedom, security, and community. It is available and open to anyone who would like to copy, use, edit and contribute for any purpose. It is code written and maintained by volunteers and community members. To compare, Microsoft has approximately 114,000 employees.
There are a number of reasons open source software works but one of the main reasons is the community of people. As an example, Drupal has more than 100,000 people around the world actively contributing to the software.
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