In production and development, open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. Before the phrase open sourceopen source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code.
Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of
production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open-source software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of terms for the concept;
Generally, open source refers to a program in which the source code
is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its
original design. Open source code is typically created as a
collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and
share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the
technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by
corporations.
The open-source model includes the concept of concurrent yet
different agendas and differing approaches in production, in contrast
with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies. A main principle and practice of open-source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public. This model is also used for the development of open-source-appropriate technologies, solar photovoltaic technology and open-source drug discovery.
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