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| 12 | <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="section" title="2.2. Open Source Philosophy"> | ||
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| 14 | <a name="open-source-philosophy"></a>2.2. Open Source Philosophy</h2></div></div></div> | ||
| 15 | <p> | ||
| 16 | Open source philosophy is characterized by software development | ||
| 17 | directed by peer production and collaboration through an active | ||
| 18 | community of developers. | ||
| 19 | Contrast this to the more standard centralized development models | ||
| 20 | used by commercial software companies where a finite set of developers | ||
| 21 | produces a product for sale using a defined set of procedures that | ||
| 22 | ultimately result in an end product whose architecture and source | ||
| 23 | material are closed to the public. | ||
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| 25 | <p> | ||
| 26 | Open source projects conceptually have differing concurrent agendas, | ||
| 27 | approaches, and production. | ||
| 28 | These facets of the development process can come from anyone in the | ||
| 29 | public (community) that has a stake in the software project. | ||
| 30 | The open source environment contains new copyright, licensing, domain, | ||
| 31 | and consumer issues that differ from the more traditional development | ||
| 32 | environment. | ||
| 33 | In an open source environment, the end product, source material, | ||
| 34 | and documentation are all available to the public at no cost. | ||
| 35 | </p> | ||
| 36 | <p> | ||
| 37 | A benchmark example of an open source project is the Linux kernel, | ||
| 38 | which was initially conceived and created by Finnish computer science | ||
| 39 | student Linus Torvalds in 1991. | ||
| 40 | Conversely, a good example of a non-open source project is the | ||
| 41 | <span class="trademark">Windows</span>® family of operating | ||
| 42 | systems developed by | ||
| 43 | <span class="trademark">Microsoft</span>® Corporation. | ||
| 44 | </p> | ||
| 45 | <p> | ||
| 46 | Wikipedia has a good historical description of the Open Source | ||
| 47 | Philosophy | ||
| 48 | <a class="ulink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source" target="_self">here</a>. | ||
| 49 | You can also find helpful information on how to participate in the | ||
| 50 | Linux Community | ||
| 51 | <a class="ulink" href="http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/book/how-participate-linux-community" target="_self">here</a>. | ||
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