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Experts claim that developing countries will reach higher rate of F/LOSS adoption in most of the sector. This results in significant opportunity of development offered by F/LOSS to developing economies. In regards to the highest use of F/LOSS by industries, education sector will lead the chart. In 2010, this sector is expected to use most of the solution provided by F/LOSS; that is 80% of the application used by education sector for educational activities would be F/LOSS. One of the important relevant factors for this is the presence of educational activities in F/LOSS at educational sector. Major F/LOSS projects are related to education industry and most of these projects are promoted from scientific field (Gallego et al. , 2008). Educational sector is well positioned to benefit from the alternatives that F/LOSS provides (Guhlin, 2007). Education sectors have accelerated the use of F/LOSS software and the leading ones are utilising it to enhance the education and facilitate studen...

Most people of developed countries used to be F/LOSS professional (Subramanyam and Xia, 2008) and these people were mostly hackers who helped improved the system/application using the internet (Williams, 2002). Recently though practitioners and government from developing countries have emerged and are supporting F/LOSS (Hahn, 2002; Mingzhi and Jie, 2004; Tong, 2004; Li et al. , 2005 ). In developing countries, F/LOSS can assist in closing the digital divide (Stallman, 2003). Because of the software industry growth, government of developing countries are showing interest and making policies related to F/LOSS. With rise of Information and communication technologies (ICT), most of the students are choosing computers to be their profession in developing countries and the numbers of developers from developing countries are growing more rapidly in recent years. In their study, Subramanyam and Xia (2008) have found evidence of motivation being crucial in these parts of the world. Th...

F/LOSS adaptation and usage highly depends on the user’s satisfaction with technology as well as the user’s awareness about F/LOSS (Gwebu and Wang, 2010). Gwebu and Wang divided the users according to the professional background (developers and non-developers) and social affiliation (community members and non community members). According to their professional background and social affiliation, users have enormous perception about F/LOSS and use different software. But only professional background or social affiliation is not responsible for the end users perception of F/LOSS, the combination of these two; that is the professional background and social affiliation plays a major role on end user awareness of F/LOSS.  The developers compose a reasonably small and specialist, but profitable market whereas the non-developers makes up for the mainstream market. This is because the developers have the technical knowledge needed for the efficient use of the F/LOSS software and the ...