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Open source (the unknown technology)

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 problem that one might face when using the software, typical example is when software is installed on a system, it sometimes activate a port that might give hackers access to your system easily0) which are created by the company that created the software, even if you are lucky to receive updates its matter of time the manufacturer will detect and blacklist the software thus making the software useless, although you might uninstall and reinstall the software again using some tricks by cleaning the registry etc, but that is not a best practice especially if security of your system is part of your concern. Again one is not sure whether the crack or activation software is free from infecting the operating system or creating a backdoor(backdoor is a way to connect to a system thru unregistered ports or thru creation of a legal way but that pose a threat to the computer or device).
With open-source software you wont be disturbed by that annoying pop-up messages like you have so and so time to reactivate or you are using a pirated software. Its absolutely free
To be continued
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