Advantages and Disadvantages of Open-Source Program

Advantages and Disadvantages of Open-Source Program

Open Source

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Open Source is a program which has been recognized by almost the entire world community. Not a few people who use the program that has had this Open Source licenses. Because indeed, the Open Source program has many advantages that are not owned by the opponent, namely progam Close Source. 

The advantages include:

Open Source will provide flexibility to the user to be able to learn the workings of a software and can modify and even create new products from existing sources.

Users no longer need to rely on certain products due to the Open Source licensed program we can create new products that are not inferior to the products of large companies such as Microsoft, Apple, etc. 

With Open Source, users no longer need to deal with computer viruses that attack system Closed Source.

Well, that three of the many advantages possessed by the Open Source Program. However, you should know that the Open Source system also has some drawbacks, among others:

Open Source programs will be difficult to develop because there are still many Hardware, Software etc. are not given the trust and full support to this program.

Many people who still do not believe in Open Source because many of those who think that Open Source is difficult to use so they prefer Close Source program that had first they know.

6 Advantages of LibreOffice

6 Advantages of LibreOffice

Office

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LibreOffice is an office application contained on Linux devices. This application is already designed easy to use. Overview of the LibreOffice

LibreOffice is an office application that ability can be aligned with Microsoft Office. LibreOffice applications contained on, among others.

• Word Processing Applications (Word Processor) called Writer.

• Application Processing digits (Spreadsheets) called Calc.

• Application Processing Presentation (Presentation) called Impress.

• Data Processing Applications (Database) called Base.

• Image Processing Applications (Drawing) called Drawing.

• In addition, there are applications of HTML Document, Formula, Labels, XML Form Document, Bussiness Card as well as several other applications.

LibreOffice excellence

1. Cheap, LibreOffice obviously much more economical because LibreOffice licensed General Public License (GPL) so that users do not need to pay a license

2. Free, using LibreOffice is a wise choice for this application is open source and can be adapted to various needs. If you are using Microsof Windows operating system, is also a Windows version of the LibreOffice program package.

3. Easy, in LibreOffice you can easily convert documents created with Microsoft Office programs. Almost all formats of Microsoft Office documents can be read using LibreOffice.

4. Friendly, LibreOffice release the transition from the old to the latest release is much more friendly than the other word processing programs are paid. In some other word processing applications, files created with old releases sometimes difficult to open the new release.

5. Stable, LibreOffice program arguably more stable because the format of the document written by LibreOffice difficult to be attacked by the virus. Very rare program crashes.

6. Support for Java applications in LibreOffice program is compatible with the Java architecture that is most widely used for web designing today.

LibreOffice

LibreOffice

Office

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LibreOffice is an office suite that is compatible with office applications such as Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org and is available in a variety of platforms . The goal is to produce office applications that support the format ODF without relying on a supplier and must include the copyright . LibreOffice name is a combination of words Libre (Spanish and French which meansfree) and Office (English, which means office). As a free software and free ( FOSS ), LibreOffice is free to download, use, and distribute. LibreOffice is a project development of OpenOffice.org which since 2010 has been acquired by Oracle.

LibreOffice Writer

LibreOffice Components.

1. LibreOffice Writer
2. LibreOffice Calc
3. LibreOffice Impress
4. LibreOffice Base
5. LibreOffice Draw
6. LibreOffice Math