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Open Source gives you the chance to make the software you're using fit your needs exactly. If you like an application, but itd doesn't have one feature you need, you can just add the feature yourself (or hire someone to do it), and use this version of the application throughout your company, even if this feature won't be useful to anyone else. By giving everyone interested in it access to the source code, Open Source ensures interoperability. If you want to write a new word processor, you can ensure its file format is completely compatible with the existing one by looking at, and possibly copying parts of, its file handling code.