What is open source?
 

Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials—typically, their source code.

Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology.

Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept;

Open source gained hold with the rise of a public, worldwide, computer-network system called 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. Subsequently, a new, three-word phrase "open source software" was born to describe the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.

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 (and source-material) available at no cost to the public. This is increasingly being applied in other fields of endeavor, such as biotechnology.

:cheers: for open source developers.

Famous Open Source Softwares
 

Open source software — software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Open source code evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers as well as very large companies. Examples of open-source software products are:

• FreeBSD - operating system derived from Unix
• Linux - operating system based on Unix
• Eclipse - software framework for "rich-client applications"
• Apache - HTTP web server
• Tomcat web server - web container
• Moodle - course management system
• Mozilla Firefox - web browser
• Mozilla Thunderbird - e-mail client
• OpenOffice.org — office suite
• OpenSolaris - Unix Operating System from Sun Microsystems
• Symbian - real time operating system
• Mediawiki — wiki server software, the software that runs Wikipedia
• Drupal — content management system
• Joomla — content management system

Re: What is open source?
 

Open source may define as a free license. Any body is permitted to edit its source code when he needs. Suppose Wordpress, Linux are open source software. you can edit them when you need. This type of software are always updating. It allows us to prove our incredible think on developing a software. Get related post in http://www.techyv.com/article/advantages-open-source-software