OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AWARENESS

The present study is about the awareness of Open Source Software (OSS) among the students, researchers and faculty members of Punjab. Study shows that the researchers are well aware with OSS whereas faculty members & students lack awareness substantially. Researchers, students and faculty members were quite familiar with names of various software which are actually open source. Since the OSS can be extremely useful in accelerating knowledge and information free of cost besides saving a lot of precious time, therefore, adequate steps are required to be taken to highlight awareness about OSS through organizing conferences / seminars, guiding, preaching and imparting hand to hand practical training to enable users gain maximum benefits through this splendid gift of OSS.