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2007-02-26 18:14:44 · 6 answers · asked by Letua_BoyZ@KL4 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Open source describes the principles and methodologies to promote open access to the production and design process for various goods, products and resources. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with either relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through either incremental individual effort, or collaboration.
Linux (most common), Syllable, and TinyOS are three examples of open source OS.
2007-02-26 18:25:44 · answer #1 · answered by Mortis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open source means free OS and you can modify the OS for your needs if you are a computer-engineer or programmer or something like that who knows programming . Linux Mandriva , Suse , Ubuntu Project ..... and many others
These are examples of Open Source operating systems.
2007-02-26 18:25:46 · answer #2 · answered by xeibeg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
open source is a trend of giving away ur customer not only the software but its code. the customer is free to distribute the code. linux is an Open source OS
2007-02-26 21:32:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning is to let people know how it runs, eventually find bugs or even create their own application starting from it. A closed source program will never tell you how it works....
Read The GNU Public License for more details.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
2007-02-26 18:22:56 · answer #4 · answered by agent-X 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is free of cost. We can get the source code of the product and we can customize according to our desired. Examples
Linux, Java, MySQL and Apache Web Server.
2007-02-26 19:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That should answer your questions. Read on if you need more information.
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
Hope it helps.
2007-02-26 18:21:13 · answer #6 · answered by jetkidz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋