Proprietary and Open Source Software

Introduction
Proprietary Software (Close source software) means the company that developed the software owns the software, and no one may duplicate it or distribute it without that company's permission.User must pay the software if they want to use the proprietary software.
Example: Microsoft Office 2007,Adobe Photoshop CS4,Adobe Flash CS4, and Windows 7.

Open Source Software that is free to use and which provides the original source code used to create it so that advance user can modify it to make it work better for them.
Example: Linux,GIMP,Mozila Firefox 3.0, and PeaZip.

Different between Proprietary and Open Source Software



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