Concept information
Preferred term
open source
Definition
- Open source refers to the software-industry tradition of developing and sharing source code and standards, and of encouraging collaborative development. Often aligned with hacker culture, open-source software has contributed to many important developments in Internet infrastructure, including BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon servers that run the Domain Name System; in software, including Linux and the Apache Web server; and in software languages, including Perl, Tcl, and Python. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Open Source]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/open_source
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