An as I was thinking about what to post o n my tech blog', a dear friend suggested I explain the difference between open source and proprietary (thanks Travis). To start off proprietary and open source are copyright protected, but with open source a lot of the intellectual property rights have been sacrificed, because in general we just want to get the software to work; by letting everyone use the software and contribute fixes. An as well as other ways to help, like in distributing the software and with that you've also got freedom of choice of who and where you get that help. Which is why tech support is so much better, but with proprietary software you're at the mercy of one company which is why tech support is usually so bad. Also to talk about games, since most people who use windows to play games, but steam, the gaming company, it's similar to gamefly, but they recently opened up their software to play on Linux operating systems and even went as far as developing a complete operating system, that just plays games. The name of the operating system is called steamos, not big shock right (haha)? But whether you use a proprietary operating system like windows or Mac, or open source operating system like Linux or BSD, but it's all about freedom of choice.
Lists of a few proprietary operating systems and open source:
Linux Mint
Ubuntu
Pc bsd
Solaris
Microsoft windows
Apple Macintosh
Finally! I get it now! U explained it perfectly
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