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Open Source software is made available free of charge, and without copyright restrictions, by its creators so that others can study how it was written and make changes to improve the software or adapt it to their own needs. The software is often written as a collaborative project by several programmers. It is expected that any changes/improvements to the software remain as open source so that others can subsequently use it free of charge. The WebKit core of Apple's Safari browser is maintained as open source, for example, and has been used in Google's Chrome browser and Symbian and Android mobile phone browsers.

• List of open-source video games
  of free/libre and open-source (FOSS) video games. Open-source video games are games assembled from and are themselves open-source software, including
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• Free and open-source software
  Free and open-source software (FOSS) is computer software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software. That is, anyone is freely
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• Open-source robotics
  movement. It makes use of open-source hardware and free and open sourcesoftware providing blueprints, schematics, and source code. The term usually means
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GitHub is where people build software. More than 24 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 66 million projects. 

https://github.com/open-source

Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with scripts and can work on many different chat services.

• Open-source computing hardware
  Open-source computing hardware comprises computers and computer components with an open design. They are designed as open-sourcehardware using open-source
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• Open-source software advocacy
  Open-source software advocacy is the practice of attempting to increase the awareness and improve the perception of open-source software. In some cases
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• Open source appropriate technology
  Open source appropriate technology (OSAT) is appropriate technology designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software. OSAT refers to, on the
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• Open-source architecture
  Open-source architecture (OSArc) is an emerging paradigm that advocates new procedures in imagination and formation of virtual and real spaces within
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"Open-source" means that the source code of a program is available, and may be modified legally. Open-source programs often tend to be free of charge as well, but that's not what "open-source" means.

• Open-source model
  The open-source model is a decentralized development model that encourages open collaboration. A main principle of open-source software development is
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• Open-source software
  Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to
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• Open-source software movement
  open collaboration. The open-source movement was started to spread the concept/idea of open-source software. Programmers who support the open-source movement
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• Open-source film
  Open-source films (also known as open-content films and free-content films) are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source
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• The Open Source Definition
  The Open Source Definition is a document published by the Open SourceInitiative, to determine whether a software license can be labeled with the open-source
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• Open-source license
  An open-source license is a type of license for computer software and other products that allows the source code, blueprint or design to be used, modified
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• Open-source software development
  Open-source software development is the process by which open-sourcesoftware, or similar software whose source code is publicly available, is developed
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• Open-source hardware
  Open-source hardware (OSH), consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open design movement. Both free and open-source software
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• Comparison of open-source and closed-source software
  Free/open-source software – the source availability model used by free and open-source software (FOSS) – and closed source are two approaches to the distribution
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• Open-source car
  An open-source car is a car with open design—designed as open-sourcehardware, using open-source principles. Open-source cars include: Rally Fighter
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• Open-source video game
  An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source. They are often freely distributable and sometimes
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Open Source software is any program where the code is given away with the software in such a way that it can be freely edited by the end user to perform other tasks which the original programmer may not have thought about, and then the person who edits the program is then allowed to send his input to the author for possible inclusion. 


Open Source software is quite good as most bugs in Open Source software get fixed really quickly due to this fact, unlike closed source software (e.g. Windows) where you have to wait for Microsoft technicians to get round to fix the problem (hence the reason why there are more viruses for Windows than Linux, and Linux is far more secure than Windows). 

Just because the code is given away with the software this doesn't mean however that the software must be given away free of charge (although quite a lot of it is), you can still charge for Open Source software (e.g. Cubecart v4 is open source however you have to buy it, and some Joomla plugins are open source but again you have to buy them). 

Because PHP is compiled each time a website is accessed and cannot be pre-compiled all add ons for websites that are wrote in PHP and distributed are open source. 

The only major problem with Open Source is that some unscrupulous people can attempt to steal software by altering or removing copyright notices that the author of the original software has requested that they remain in place, e.g. Cubecart v3 is a free shopping basket that the author has requested the notices (Powered by CubeCart) must remain in place, however as it is open source there is nothing to stop people just going in and editing the line that displays this code to remove it. It is really just based on trust (and also the threat of legal action if your caught using it in such a way - yes even though it's open source the original owner of the program can still enforce some control on their program as set out by the terms and conditions). 

Some examples of Open Source are... 

Linux, WINE, GIMP, Ghostscript, OpenOffice, Joomla, Cubecart & Wiki CMS, Thunderbird, Firefox, GNU/Linux, Paint.NET, Blender, irrEdit, Code::Blocks etc. 

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