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| − | [[Image:Coloured GNU.png|80px|right]] '''Free and open-source software''' is now very successful in the world of software development - Firefox, Apache, OpenOffice and Linux being prominent examples. Perhaps not counting the field of science, 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 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}} | + | [[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 not counting the field of science, 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 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 23:40, 23 December 2006
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 not counting the field of science, this where the concept of
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
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.
