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Why Open Source?

Once you've worked with closed source operating systems and applications long enough, you'll have had the experience of something, somewhere going wrong with no clear way to find out why or how! And when you ask a professional for advice, you discover that the information you badly needs comes at a very high cost. It's not so much computing as seeking advice from an alchemist who may, for a price, turn that hunk of metal sitting dumbly on your desk into a machine of gold!

Shouldn't your computing experience be better than that?

A lot of people have felt this way, and over the last two decades, a large body of "free" software has been developed, ranging from simple text editors to entire operating systems. This software is considered "free" because there are no limits -- no limits to your freedom to use it, to look at the originating source code (i.e., Open Source), to change the program any way you see fit in order to get the job done.

As a side-effect of this philosophy, the price of Open Source software packages is a mere fraction of their closed source counterparts. When was the last time you saw the latest version of W*ndows on sale for around $10? Answer: never

But price is not the ultimate issue -- the freedom to use your software is. And because Open Source software is neither bound by restrictive licenses nor bug-ridden closed source code, it often works far better and faster than its closed source counterparts. For example, half of the Internet runs on Apache Web Servers; about 40% of the world's computers run a varient of GNU/Linux or BSD UN*X; you can replace your expensive Office software today with OpenOffice. And this leaves out hundreds of software packages that would cost you thousands of dollars in you bought them from closed source vendors.

We are a resource to better utilize this software. If you are a business or an individual who needs help using this tremendous body of software, look no further. Contact Castle Computer Consultants, Inc. by email today!

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