Why we apply free software?
The most controversial point of Async is always the most important: here we only use, for choice, free software, and stimulate that our customers make the same. Free software exists to protect the companies, and the products they generate or buy. To understand the concept best aid to erase preconceptions.
Free software is, in a phrase, software that can be redistributed and modified without restrictions. What means that, if you have a free software product you can modify it to behave what you wants, and to pass these contributions for who you want.
In practice this compels software to be distributed with source code, or either, with the code in the original language in which the program was written. This is an advantage, because, anyone could be able to developing new code functionality and to correct defects.
When we talk on applying Free Software, we always have to concentrate in enabling and teaching, because if don't exist people with enough knowledge in that environment or language, is difficult to take off advantage of the code. Async has, for this end, a complete training program.
Free software protects the company. We are all tired of software that was written by people and companies who had discontinued support and abandoned customers. Being free, it has guarantee that the Software can be kept and, if has interest, it continues alive. We have innumerable examples of companies who had decided to give no more support to one or another software - with Free Software, this does not occur.
Beyond this advantage, it has another side that a very little is generally known: Free Software generates products of excellent quality and in the certain time. The reason for that is much more anthropologic: people who develop Free Software make it because they believe in their work. The Software are not made for obligation, and yes because it has pleasure in seeing a well done work being applied for diverse people. The developers are the best ones, simply because they are personally dedicated to do tasks that face.
This set of characteristics made us to invest in Free Software, and believes that today it is the best option for most of the software applications. Work together with Async and you will be certain to work with a company who understands and has satisfaction with what make.