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CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Question 104 of 177

Societal Impacts — Question 7

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Question 7

Which of the following is a disadvantage of 'open source' software ?

  1. High quality software with lots of features
  2. Not as customizable
  3. May not have been tested as much as proprietary software, so might have bugs.
  4. You can edit the source code to customize it
Answer

May not have been tested as much as proprietary software, so might have bugs.

Reason — The main disadvantage of open-source software is that it may not have been tested as extensively as proprietary software, so it might have bugs.