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Speaking of quality&mdash;nowadays more and more firms realize that allowing the users to access the sourcecode gives them a huge advantage. To say it in a simple way: more eyes can see more. Solutions that are unimaginable for one person are painfully obvious for someone else. Due to this advantage Free Software is very often so much better than its proprietary counterpart. The train of thought that now appears to be establishing itself within some firms is to give users access to the source code but not grant any other rights. Improvements are obediently being sent back to the firm that advances it's product with them. Basically as a gigantic gratis development division. If we do not pay attention to these things now it might happen that in 5 years we will have to pay for a version that has been produced by applying our own patch.