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"If you don't program, you may end up wondering why you should use free-software. Why not just buy Mac OSX and Microsoft word? Well, let us look at the potential negative consequences for choosing proprietary software. If you have used proprietary software at all, you have probably run into one or more of these problems that free software eliminates for you."
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If you don't program, you may end up wondering why you should use free-software. Why not just buy Mac OSX and Microsoft word? Well, let us look at the potential negative consequences for choosing proprietary software. If you have used proprietary software at all, you have probably run into one or more of these problems that free software eliminates for you. When you use a computer, you want to do a specific job. Maybe you want to type up a document, send an email, or look up information on the web. Maybe you want to play a game. You wonder why you should use free software instead of the proprietary alternatives, especially when proprietary software is the way you are used to doing things.
Unfortunately, you will, sooner or later run into one of the many drawbacks of using proprietary software. First of all, buying propriety software is expensive. Microsoft office and Windows cost quite a lot. Your Macintosh is also quite expensive. You like to save money so you can buy more useful things.
Secondly, you care what happens to your data. If you are using proprietary software, it could eat your data. If bugs cause it to eat data, you cannot have them fixed. You can not ask another programmer outside the company who made the software to look at the code for you to see if it eats data or not. Unfortunately, I had this experiences with windows XP. This is one of the reason I have chosen to support free-software.
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