Open-source vs traditional proprietary software.

           The open source movement is a broad-reaching movement of individuals who support the use of open source licences for some or all software. Open source software is made available for anybody to use or modify, as its source code is made available. Open source software promotes learning and understanding through the dissemination of understanding. The main difference between open-source and traditional proprietary software is in user and property rights, the conditions of use imposed on the user by the software license, as opposed to differences in the programming code.

            Today I would like to point out some of the most popular open source software products with a comparison of proprietary software. As by this time i consider Google Chrome to be the most popular web browser. Another great example is Mozilla Firefox and as a final example I would like to point out Internet Explorer.

            Chrome - features a minimalistic user interface, with its user-interface principles later being implemented into other browsers and allows users to synchronize their bookmarks, history, and settings across all devices with the browser installed by sending and receiving data through a chosen Google Account, which in turn updates all signed-in instances of Chrome. Google releases the majority of Chrome's source code as an open-source project Chromium. Chrome was assembled from 25 different code libraries from Google and third parties such as Mozilla's Netscape Portable Runtime, Network Security Services, NPAPI, Skia Graphics Engine, SQLite, and a number of other open-source projects. Google Chrome is a prime example of software development from people to people. As before chrome came out leading developer was Microsoft with IE. As we all know Microsoft is not cheap. I believe that open source sofware can change our environment. Programmers who support the open source movement philosophy contribute to the open source community by voluntarily writing and exchanging programming code for software development.

            Mozilla Firefox can be counted as a predecessor of Chrome. Mozilla Firefox (known simply as Firefox) is a free and open-source web browser developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux. The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. It was originally titled Phoenix, which carried the implication of the mythical firebird that rose triumphantly from the ashes of its dead predecessor, in this case from the "ashes" of Netscape Navigator after it had been killed off by Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the "First browser war". In general Firefox have tried to resemble Chrome after the exploding success of latter. In general if something would happen to Chrome I would switch over to Firefox.

            Internet Explorer Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It is one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as OS X, Linux, iOS and Android that do not run Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has been subjected to many security vulnerabilities and concerns. Much of the spyware, adware, and computer viruses across the Internet are made possible by exploitable bugs and flaws in the security architecture of Internet Explorer, sometimes requiring nothing more than viewing of a malicious web page in order to install themselves. Overall IE was one of the first browsers that let its user to connect with the world. In my opinion due to arrogance of Microsoft and because of the fact that they were the explorers in the field they managed to let through some faults which were later used by "bad" people. Because of that and some other speculations that cover Microsoft people have withdrawn from using it. Both Chrome and Firefox offer userfriendly, secure and easy to use environment.