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In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a) universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and b) unive
by yincrash 13y ago
In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a) universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
- Guvante 13y agoThe exact definition of open source is up for debate. Historically open source and free software have been synonymised in implementation, so it isn't surprising Wikipedia is using that definition. However originally the idea was open source meant "you can look at and modify the code" while free software meant "you can redistribute the code".