But
the Question is that what is OpenSource?
Some
People Say that opensource
means free
software i.e.
the software which is said to be open source software will be freely
available to the masses.
Other
says that if the software is open source software then the “sourcecode” of
the software
i.e.
the programming instructions are also available.
Actually,
the above said things about open source are true but the actual power
of open source is even more than this.
It
is the power to use the available source code, modify it and
redistribute the open source software according to your needs i.e. to
create customized software that will fulfill all the requirements and
above all the software need not to be created from scratch.
Another
important benefit of open source is that no one person is responsible
for developing the open source software. Although the basic idea may
be of one person but that idea is implemented by multiple talented
and passionate programmers
all over the world. In other words, open source softwares are
developed by the collaborative efforts of creative developers all
over the world.
The
main benefit of this kind of development environment is that the
software which is being developed is mature, flexible, tested ,
contains less bugs, developed very fast and of a better quality in
comparison to other traditionally developed softwares.
Now
a Days, we have a wide range of open source softwares available in
market.
- For Development there are programming languages like php, ruby etc.
- Browsers like Mozilla Firefox.
The
first development which is most significant in the open source
development was the development of open source operating system,
Linux.
Linux
has evolved as a very good operating system over a span of few years
and today we have number of different distributions and variety of
third party software and applications for Linux operating system.
The
main essence of open source is that there is no licensing fee and no
one can copyright open source software.
It
follows the rule - "ofthe people, by the people and for the people.”
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