Commercial Tools

Commercial Tools/Commercial software or in other words Payware, is a software product that stands for sale or serves commercial purposes.
Commercial software is most often proprietary software, which means that is licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder, but even free software package may also be commercial software.
All or parts of software packages and services that support commerce are increasingly made available as free software. Sample product that maintain this movement are RedHat, Apple Computers, Sun, Google, etc. Beside commercial proprietary software, there is Free and Opensource software, which can be also commercial, and depends on the business model of the group. Free software business model, sometimes charge a fee for distribution and offer pay support and software customization services. Proprietary software uses a different business model, where a customer of the proprietary software pays a fee for a license to use the software.
This license may grant the customer the ability to configure some or no parts of the software themselves.
Often some level of support is included in the purchase of proprietary software, but additional support services are usually available for an additional fee.
Free software is generally available at no cost and can result in permanently lower costs compared to proprietary software. With free software, businesses can fit software to their specific needs by changing the software themselves or by hiring programmers to modify it for them. Free software often has no warranty, and more importantly, generally does not assign legal liability to anyone. However, warranties are permitted between any two parties upon the condition of the software and its usage. Such an agreement is made separately from the free software license. A report by Standish Group says that adoption of Opensource has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year.
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