Difference between revisions of "Open collaborative design/Free and open-source software"

[[Image:Coloured GNU.png|80px|right]] '''Free and open-source software''' is now very prominent in the world of software development. This where the concept of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production Commons-based peer production] originated. 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 customize or help improve open-source software and making these changes available to others encouraging rapid development times, robustness and reduces duplication of effort {{more|Free and open-source software}}