Difference between revisions of "Open collaborative design/Free and open-source software"
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[[Image:Coloured GNU.png|80px|right]] '''Free and open-source software''' is becoming increasingly prominent in the world of software development - Firefox, Apache, OpenOffice and Linux being some high profile examples. Perhaps ignoring the field of science, this where the concept of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production commons-based peer production] originated. | [[Image:Coloured GNU.png|80px|right]] '''Free and open-source software''' is becoming increasingly prominent in the world of software development - Firefox, Apache, OpenOffice and Linux being some high profile examples. Perhaps ignoring the field of science, this where the concept of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production commons-based peer production] originated. | ||
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Networks of people connected by the internet collaborate to evolve software and make it freely available to others. Not only is the product free to use, but so are the workings of the software known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code source code]. Anyone is free to customise or help improve open-source software and making these changes available to others encourages rapid development times, robustness and reduces duplication of effort. {{more|Free and open-source software}} | Networks of people connected by the internet collaborate to evolve software and make it freely available to others. Not only is the product free to use, but so are the workings of the software known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code source code]. Anyone is free to customise or help improve open-source software and making these changes available to others encourages rapid development times, robustness and reduces duplication of effort. {{more|Free and open-source software}} | ||
Revision as of 22:14, 14 January 2007
Networks of people connected by the internet collaborate to evolve software and make it freely available to others. Not only is the product free to use, but so are the workings of the software known as the source code. Anyone is free to customise or help improve open-source software and making these changes available to others encourages rapid development times, robustness and reduces duplication of effort. 
