Open source software
Open source- Software whose source code is published and made available to the public, which enables anyone to copy, modify and distribute the source code.
Some examples of open source are – Linux, Eclipse, web server and mozilla.
“The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.
We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.
Open Source Initiative exists to make this case to the commercial world.” (Quote from: http://www.opensource.org/)
There is open source software as well as open software hardware, they are both similar, as there initial software is made available to the public, who can copy, modify, and redistribute without paying royalties or fees.
Mozilla is open source software, which was released in 1998, by the Netscape under an open source license. The suite was well known as the open source base of the Netscape suite, which became the base for many stand-alone applications such as firefox.
Linux is an operating system, which was created by student as a hobby, the first version he created was Linux Kernel, was developed and released under the GNU General Public License and the source code is free to anyone. There have since been many companies and people whom have created operating programmed based on this system.
At first Linux was dismissed as unsuitable for general use, but as programmers developed programs like mozilla, people became more aware of its capabilities. Now it is used by people both in the home and office, and can be easily booted from a cd, which contains everything, you need to run Linux and no installation is needed.
Some examples of open source are – Linux, Eclipse, web server and mozilla.
“The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.
We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.
Open Source Initiative exists to make this case to the commercial world.” (Quote from: http://www.opensource.org/)
There is open source software as well as open software hardware, they are both similar, as there initial software is made available to the public, who can copy, modify, and redistribute without paying royalties or fees.
Mozilla is open source software, which was released in 1998, by the Netscape under an open source license. The suite was well known as the open source base of the Netscape suite, which became the base for many stand-alone applications such as firefox.
Linux is an operating system, which was created by student as a hobby, the first version he created was Linux Kernel, was developed and released under the GNU General Public License and the source code is free to anyone. There have since been many companies and people whom have created operating programmed based on this system.
At first Linux was dismissed as unsuitable for general use, but as programmers developed programs like mozilla, people became more aware of its capabilities. Now it is used by people both in the home and office, and can be easily booted from a cd, which contains everything, you need to run Linux and no installation is needed.
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