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Free and Open Source Software

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Free and Open Source Software It is computer that can be classified as both free software and open- source software. That is, anyone is freely licensed to use copy, study and change the software in anyway, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software. This is contract to proprietary software where the software is under restrictive copyrights and source code is usually hidden from the user.             The benefits of using FOSS can include decreasing software costs increasing security and stability protecting privacy and giving user more control over their own hardware. FOSS system such as Linux and descendants of BSD are widely utilized today powering millions of serves desktop, smart phone and other devices free software licenses and open source licenses are used by many software   packages .The open source software movement is an online social movements behind wide spread production and adoption of FOS