The whole philosophy of pee-to-peer open source programs is basically being able to use any program available for free. Of course this is something that big companies like Microsoft don’t like because it takes business away from them. The programmers who designed the open source system truly believe in the movement of freedom in regard freedom of sharing programs with others without them having to pay for it. Moreover, Benkler also talks about the freedom people have to make any modified changes to the programs if needed; as long as they give credit to the original General Public License it is good.
“In the Peer Production of Information, Knowledge, and Culture”In the open source systems anyone’s knowledge is well appreciated, because, even now it exists technical supports through the blogs, now users don’t even have to wait hours and hours to have technical support from the company. That is a great advantage, and the support is for free. Is cool to find places that offer support where individuals share “their time, experience, wisdom, and creativity to form new information, knowledge, and cultural goods” (Benkler, 15). Finally in this age of technology, it is always good to find out how much valuable information we can find online and best of all it has been provided to us by someone who cares and knows about technology and he or she is willing to share that knowledge with the whole world. Great!
