Question

Differentiate Proprietary and open source software.

Answer 1

Open Source Software	Proprietary Software
It is developed and tested through open collaboration	It is owned by the indi­vidual or the organiza­tion that developed if
Anyone with the aca­demic knowledge can access, inspect, modi­fy and redistribute the source code.	Only the owner or pub­lisher who holds the legal property rights of the source code can ac­cess it.
The project is managed by an open-source community of develop­ers and programmers	The project is managed by a dosed group of in­dividuals or a team that developed it
They are not aimed at unskilled users outside of the programming community	There are focused on a limited market of both skilled and unskilled end users
It Provides better flex­ibility which means more freedom which encourages innovation	There is a very limit­ed scope of innovation with the restrictions and all
Example: Android, Firefox, etc	Example: Windows, macOS