Proprietary Software

 

Advantages

 

Proprietary software has three advantages over Open-source software.

First, most of proprietary software is very user friendly for those people that are computer illiterate

Second, normally proprietary software receives allot of updates fixing spyware problems.

Third, bugs in software gets fixed with regular updates

 

 

Disadvantages

Proprietary software has two disadvantages over Open-source software.

First, the code for proprietary software is generally kept secret and can't be changed by the user.

Second, a user purchases only the compiled version of proprietary software and has no choice but to use the software as it is.