History
The free software movement was launched in 1983. In 1998, a group of individuals advocated that the term free software should be replaced by open source software (OSS) as an expression which is less ambiguous and more comfortable for the corporate world[5]. Software developers may want to publish their software with an open source license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand its internal functioning. Open source software generally allows anyone to create modifications of the software, port it to new operating systems and processor architectures, share it with others or market it.
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software#History
We can develop things after we learn their history!
ReplyDeleteLast year the school I am working in had to pay a large amount of money for softwares licenses! I was trying to solve this problem by replacing those softwares with open source softwares. There was a little difficulty in the beginning, but now we are used to those softwares. It's worth to learn to use them.
ReplyDeleteCould you please give more explanation (with examples) on how the OSS works? Thank You
ReplyDeleteThis seems like an interesting topic! What are some common examples of OSS? Are there many dangers to publishing the software with an open source license?
ReplyDeleteThe free software movement was launched in 1983. Wow ... until now it's more than 20 years. We had lots of open source in present day. Each program is developing all the times.
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