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the Open Source future

As everyone who has used a computer know, there are a myriad of applications, packages, programs, tools, etc, you can buy in a store or online, these programs have a cost, which is calculated for pay the salaries of programmers, editors, marketers, distributors, investment recovery, etc. Dichp cost is in many occasions too high (especially if you tried to get a Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista original), this is no longer out of reach legal application developers with low incomes, as to generate, such a small publishing company, an image for a poster to be paid licensing programs such as Photoshop, CorelDraw, etc. (or perhaps work wonders with the Paint), or for example to generate a 3D animation or video must pay very high costs of specialized software, as is the case 3DMAX or Maya, so that the costs of software license investment are very high for SMEs, so it is necessary to consider tools called Open Source or Open Source .

sum expressed in (http://www.opensource.org/) an Open Source software meets the following:
  1. There is no restriction to include or sell the material within an application, this low ningpun cost
  2. must access the software source code in question,
  3. The license must allow modification and redistribution of the new code under the same conditions,
  4. Amendments must be redistributed with a name other than the software version original, unless the distribution permit with "patches"
  5. There should be no discrimination against any person or group,
  6. There should be no discrimination on the field that is used
  7. software program rights must be applied equally to the application or redistribution made,
  8. rights are retained even if the software is part of the distribution of other software,
  9. software
  10. rights do not apply to other software tools used (each with its own rules),
  11. The license is the same regardless of the type of technology employed.
With these 10 points we observed a characteristic very important for this type of software, which is that everyone can "get their hands" or change it, so it is generating new variations of the original code, not to mention the ball failed attempts, which gives it life of its own each program, allowing the generation of variations that may be more useful in some application that the original program, plus the fact that it can be put into another program can generate more complex applications and enriched with the goodness of each program included , not to mention the differences in cost, say an example.

want to generate a billboard with 3D imaging, whether a new computer has already been paid a license for Windows, but if you look to go from the cheapest (but definitely not easier) can build a hardware specifications you require, consider the costs:

Traditional Software:
  • UP WINDOWS XP PRO w/SP2 $ 214.15 USD (http://www.edimestore.com/)
  • Autodesk 3ds Max 9 $ 3,700.00 USD (http://www.nextag.com/)
  • Adobe Photoshop $ 246.99 USD (http://www. shopdit.com /)
Total = $ 4161.14 USD

Open Source Software Linux
  • $ 0.00 USD (Http://www.mandriva.com/)
  • PovRay $ 0.00 USD (http://www.povray.org/)
  • Gimp $ 0.00 USD (http://www.gimp.org/)
Total = $ 0.00 USD

is why the open source software that constitutes a choice when deciding on a tool, but given the low cost there is little business in this type of software, so that the support is low, although there are plenty of forums to resolve the doubts.

sole obligation to decide on a style software is having the time to understand operation and in some cases the installation of the same, so that user demand to be closer to the structure of the program, which for some is asking too much because we're used to programs run by themselves and need not know anything about them.
The results speak for themselves, here are a couple of pictures:

Open Source (PovRay) Traditional (3ds Max)

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