13 Facts About Open source

Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.

Open source promotes universal access via an open-source or free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint.

Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use or modification from its original design.

Early instances of the free sharing of Open source code include IBM's Open source releases of its operating systems and other programs in the 1950s and 1960s, and the SHARE user group that formed to facilitate the exchange of software.

Open source made the first public call to the free software community to adopt it in February 1998.

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Open source collaboration is thought to be the operating principle underlining a gamut of diverse ventures, including TEDx and Wikipedia.

Open source collaboration is the principle underlying peer production, mass collaboration, and wikinomics.

Open source promotes universal access via an open-source or free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint.

Open source gained hold in part due to the rise of the Internet.

Open-source software is software which source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees.

Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use for any purpose, or modification from its original design.

Open source-IPTV is IPTV that is not limited to one recording studio, production studio, or cast.

The Budapest Open source Access Initiative is an international effort with the goal of making all research articles available free on the Internet.