Open source software attracts an ever-growing list of advocates. It can save organisations a lot of money while still providing a superior service to that available from proprietary vendors.
The most obvious advantage of open source software is the products are normally free to download, although it does incur running costs such as storage and computing power. Even those rare paid-for open source products still tend to be far cheaper than closed source alternatives.

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