CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Question 103 of 177

Societal Impacts — Question 6

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Question 6

Which of the following is an advantage of 'open source' software ?

  1. You can edit the source code to customize it.
  2. You need to be an expert to edit code.
  3. You have to pay.
  4. Can sometimes be too generic for specialist purposes.
Answer

You can edit the source code to customize it.

Reason — The advantage of open-source software is that we can edit the source code to customize it according to our needs or preferences.