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ARTICLES RELATED TO Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source | | | |  Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source vs. closed sourceThe open source vs. closed source (alternatively called proprietary development) debate is sometimes heated.
Making money through traditional methods, such as sale of the use of individual copies and patent royalty payment, is more difficult and sometimes impractical with open-source software. Some closed-source advocates see open source software as damaging to the market of commercial software. This complaint is countered by a large number of alternative funding streams such as:
giving the software for free and in ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Terminology The "open source" label came out of a strategy session held in Palo Alto in reaction to Netscape's January 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator (as Mozilla). A group of individuals at the session included Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, John Hall, Sam Ockman, Christine Peterson and Eric S. Raymond. They used the opportunity before the release of Navigator's source code to clarify a potential confusion caused by the ambiguity of the word "free" in English. The 'open source' movement is generally thought to have begun with t ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Advocates Leading open source advocates include Brian Behlendorf, Tim O'Reilly, Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds, Mitch Kapor and Paul Vixie. Others that advocate open source software, but do so under its original name "free software" include Alan Cox, Jimbo Wales, and Eben Moglen. Bruce Perens is a prominent figure that uses both terms.
Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement in 1983, does not want his name associated with the term open source due to its philosophi ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source model In his 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar[2], open-source evangelist Eric S. Raymond suggests a model for developing OSS known as the Bazaar model. Raymond likens the development of software by traditional methodologies to building a cathedral, "fully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation"[3]. He suggests that ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source software development tools There are several types of tools used to aid the activities performed in Open Source Software projects. These tools include the following;
Open-source software - Source code revision control.
Main article: Revision control
In OSS development the participants, who are mostly volunteers, are distributed amongst different geographic regions so there is need ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source vs. free software The definition of open source software was written to be almost identical to the free software definition. There are very few cases of software that is free software but is not open source software, and vice versa.
The difference in the terms is where they place the emphasis. Free software is defined in terms of giving the user freedom. This reflects the goal of the free software movement. Open source highlights that the source code is viewable to all and proponents of the term usually emphasize the quality of th ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source software development tools There are several types of tools used to aid the activities performed in Open Source Software projects. These tools include the following;
Open-source software - Source code revision control.
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source vs. free software The definition of open source software was written to be almost identical to the free software definition. There are very few cases of software that is free software but is not open source software, and vice versa.
The difference in the terms is where they place the emphasis. Free software is defined in terms of giving the user freedom. This reflects the goal of the free software movement. Open source highlights that the source code is viewable to all and proponents of the term usually emphasize the quality of the software and how thi ...
See also:Open-source software, Open-source software - Terminology, Open-source software - Open source model, Open-source software - Open-source license, Open-source software - Open source movement, Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source, Open-source software - Open source vs. free software, Open-source software - Participants in OSS development projects, Open-source software - Open source software development tools, Open-source software - Source code revision control, Open-source software - Testing tools, Open-source software - Bug/Error/Defect tracking tools, Open-source software - Communication, Open-source software - Advocates, Open-source software - Prominent projects and organizations, Open-source software - Examples of open source software, Open-source software - Notes Read more here: » Open-source software: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source vs. free software |
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source model In his 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar[1], open-source evangelist Eric S. Raymond suggests a model for developing OSS known as the Bazaar model. Raymond likens the development of software by traditional methodologies to building a cathedral, "fully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation"[2]. He suggests that ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open-source license Open-source licenses define the privileges and restrictions a licensor must follow in order to use, modify or redistribute the open source software. Open source software includes software with source code in the public domain and software distributed under an open-source license.
Examples of open source licenses include Apache License, BSD license, GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License, MIT License, Eclipse Public License and Mozilla Public License.
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Open source movement The open source movement is a large movement of computer scientists, programmers, and other computer users that advocates unrestricted access to the source code of software. It grew out of licenses such as BSD, the ubiquitous access to Unix source code at universities. The line between the open source movement and the free software movement is somewhat blurry. Both are founded in the hacker culture. Mostly, the Free software movement is based upon political and philosophical ideals, while open source proponents tend to focus on more pragmati ...
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| | | | Open-source software - Open source vs. closed source: Encyclopedia II - Open-source software - Participants in OSS development projects Participants in OSS development projects fall broadly into two categories. There are the Core and the Peripheral.
The Core or Inner Circle are developers who modify codes that constitute the project.
The Peripheral are usually made up of users who use the software. They report bugs, and suggest fixes.
The participants may then be further divided into the following.
Project leaders who have the overall responsibility (Core). Most of them might have been involved in coding the first release of the software. Th ...
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