offcourse i voted 1
and i live in a third world country too
open source has to be it peepl bcoz thats what is the greatest accelerator too technological advancement
the main advantage here is that thousands of other people can see your code and improve on it also really extreme testing gets done for free
unlike the micro buggers who we pay to do their testing and then repay to but an upgrade
i think that there is no point in keeping your prog closed source bcoz what it does is there to be seen by everyone so someone else could obviously figure out how to do it
so someone else could also write a similar program but then he/she would have wasted many man hrs in
'reinventing the wheel'
instead if the source was originally made available those man hrs could have been used to improve or build upon the original software
also bugs get noticed and fixed faster than any other way
the best example is obviously Linux/GNU
what started as a coll project became a competitor to win only coz it was open source
i believe that closed source must have pushed back tech advancement atleast 10 years by now so the faster we open up the better
