Open Source Software



Open Source Software

Open source software (OSS) is one of the most important recent developments in the software industry. OSS refers to those programs “whose licenses give users the freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and modify the program, and to redistribute copies of either the original or the modified program without having to pay royalties to previous developers”. Increasing numbers of OSS products have become available in the market, ranging from common office suites such as Open Office by Sun Microsystems to database systems such as MySQL and thousands of specialized scientific applications.

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