LAHORE, March 11: The biggest benefit of open source software is to make things simpler, speakers at a seminar at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry said.

The software has no licencing costs, reliability, standards

compliance, choice etc, said LCCI president Mian Shafqat Ali, IT Committee convener Armaghan Saqib, Computer Society Pakistan president Shoaib Hameed Khwaja and IT committee member Zahid Hamid Khan said at the seminar organised by the LCCI’s IT committee.

Developed by highly competent people and available with source code freely to every body in the world, the software was in contrast to commercial software developed by companies who charge high prices for their software and don’t make the source code available ever.