Why Open Source
Why we use open source is very simple. When programmers are able to read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software develops gradually. People improve it, adapt it, they can fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astounding.
With Open Source, though a particular project or company dies, all the code remains open to the community and people can improve it. If this project is useful to someone, he can even do that himself. If a particular bug annoys you, you can submit it, can get help of the developers, or you can fix it yourself, and send the changes back to the upstream developers so that everyone gets the improvement as well. Indirectly you help users from all over the world.
We are in the open source community. We believe that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software with open source than the traditional closed model.
