7. Benefits Gives developers a huge amount of freedom to improve and distribute. Consumers don’t have to pay a penny: $60 billion savings per year to consumers – Standish Group
13. Funding Donations. Users paying for improvementsand/or removal of bugs. Teaching of languages and code to work a possible piece of open source software.
14. Funding Can be a problem. Often why individuals are swayed away from open source.
15. Ethics Computer socialism FTW? Meaning everyone works for each other. Parts of American culture sees socialism as a form of communism. Computers/Internet can be seen as a clean slate to organise the way we access and create information.
16. Ethics Ideas are not locked and kept but can be improved by more then person(s) who created it. Creators/contributors not rewarded with large financial benefits.
17. Drawbacks No guarantee of stability Limited completely dedicated support. Majority of open source software applications are not reliable.