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Open Source
Unlike proprietary software (such as Microsoft Operating Systems), open source offers the users software where the source code of the software is freely available and developers can contribute to the code. There are a number of pros and cons to open source, with a clear divide between the supporters of open source and supporters of Microsoft type proprietary software.