What is Open Source?

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Open Source Software

     Any software whose code is available for users to look at and modify freely. Linux is the best-known example; others include Apache, the dominant software for servers that dish out corporate web pages.
     Open Source Software is for the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes. There are many types of Open Source Softwares, mainly differing in the licensing term under which (altered) copies of the source code may (or must be) redistributed.

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