APPLICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE
WHAT IS COMPUTER SOFTWARE
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open source
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proprietory
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expensive
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike proprietary or closed software, open source software allows researchers and developers to learn from its code base, reuse it, improve it, and eventually, contribute to it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Number of open source projects and versions worldwide 2022, by ecosystem. At the end of 2022, there were 2.06 million JavaScript open source projects in the Maven Central Repository and 29 million JavaScript project versions worldwide.
Detailed explanation-3: -Open source is generally much more cost-effective than a proprietary solution. Not only are open source solutions typically much more inexpensive in an enterprise environment for equivalent or superior capability, but they also give enterprises the ability to start small and scale (more on that coming up).