Q1\ What is open source software?

How is it different from

proprietary software?

Open-source software - It is a computer software whose source

code is made available to the public to be distributed freely and
modified by anyone. It is introduced as an alternative to the high cost
and limitations of traditional proprietary software. There is much
greater scope of expansion and innovation in open source software
strategy. It leads to lower cost and faster pace of development. Baidu
and Fujitsu are prominent examples of open source software
innovation.

Difference between open source software and proprietary

software:

Open source software Proprietary software

It refers to the software that is It refers to the software owned by an

build and maintained by open
calibration.
It is of low cost and provide
much more flexibility that
encourages innovation
It provides admin support to
handle any discrepancy
Users can modify the software
individual and organization.
It is quite expensive and impose
many restrictions.
User needs to pay more for availing
admin support facility
Users cannot modify the software

Users can freely install this Users need to purchase license for
software on their system. using this software.

Q2\ What had motivated Baidu to make its AI software open

source? How did Baidu benefit from open sourcing?

Baidu is the leading search engine company in China and is mostly

commonly referred as 'google of China'. It is the fifth most visited site
in China. Baidu open sourced it's AI software Paddle Paddle. Main
idea behind this move is to increase the pace of innovation by relying
on many users for new ideas and features instead of just having
small and internal group of R&D. It realized that traditional proprietary
software is no longer profitable and there is great scope of growth in
open source, so Baidu decides to compete and acquire market by
adopting open-source strategy.

Baidu makes commendable profit from open sourcing. Today

PaddlePaddle powers more than 30 of Baidu's offline and online
products and services, used across variety of industries, including
finance and health care. Baidu's undertaking became the
springboard for AI innovation in China, opening doors to variety of
deep learning applications.

Q3\ Why did Fujitsu adopt an open source did Fujitsu benefit from it?

Fujitsu is a leading Japanese multinational information and

communication technology company. Fujitsu adopted open source
strategy because it recognized that it was critical to move from its
traditional products and services to the Internet and the cloud and
this drove it towards the OSS. It identified the opportunity in multi
cloud environment. It realized that there is lack of standard
technologies among various cloud service providers, so it created an
open-source catalogue manager, an open-source software to bridge
this gap.

Adoption of open-source strategy benefited Fujitsu in several ways. It

became the partner of choice for vendors using OCSM, and
companies such as Image Ware systems The companies partnered
to provide biometric-as-a- service and enjoyed numerous unexpected
and expected benefits.

Bader Abdullah Alsayari

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