Advantages for Businesses To Use OO vs Proprietary Software | Thread profile

I'm a small business owner who's recently learned about the open source movement and I was thinking I'd come here to ask the community about the advantages of using that type of software vs Microsoft or other proprietary programs.

The first advantage is that it is OpenSource and thus free. This means that you can have OOo installed on as many computers as you want without having a seperate licence for each one. It even means that, if they want, your employees can easily (and legally) have the same software at home without it costing you or them anything. A longer-term advantage is that OOo used an Open ...

I just want to correct one thing here. There is a difference between "open source" and "public domain". Public domain means that there are no copyright restrictions on it at all, and you can literally do anything you want with it. Open source, on the other hand, usually has a few restrictions. Granted, those restrictions only really come into play if a programmer makes changes...