Part one Open source software is a software or system that can be freely distributed, modified or changed. Its a system that is initially developed for humanity as a gift. In Africa especially many people don’t even know the existence of such technology, that’s why we end of using cracked (pirated) software, without knowing something similarly or exactly of that system is available for free! For example many of us uses pirated Microsoft office suit™ without knowing many systems exists that can deliver almost everything the suit does and it doesn’t cost a penny! Yeah!!! you wont buy any license and its not a trial version or limited version! Example of such suits are Libre office suite, open-office suit etc. Such suits are available online from open-source sites like sourceforge.com The negative impact of pirated software is you are not entitled to security patches (This is program created by the software manufacturers to correct an error or to fix a potential probl...
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