Open Sourcing
By: Wikipedia.com
Open Source
By: Wikipedia.com
Before anyone says "Hey, Open Source is way different from Open Sourcing!" and I get a flood of complaints, its important to know what something is. In any form. Noun, Verb or Adjective. Open Source is when a programing code is made openly available to the public. Meaning EVERYONE can use it. Examples would be: Mozila Firefox and Netscape Browser. An Open Source License allows the one with the license to EDIT and REDISTRIBUTE the code in question. By 'one' I mean a company or an individual. What most people don't know is that with a license you don't have to repay the origonal author(s). If the Source Code is made avaiable to the public domain then OSI can put its Service Mark on it. That means that it is officially in the public domain and can be used by anyone. Just like the sidewalk!
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