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The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software adapts. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, open source seems astonishing.
We in the open source community have learned that this rapid adaption process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.
Open Source Initiative exists to make this case to the commercial world.
Open source software is an idea whose time has finally come. For twenty years it has been building momentum in the technical cultures that built the Internet and the World Wide Web. Now it's breaking out into the commercial world, and that's changing all the rules. Are you ready?
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Open Source software is now entering main stream computing. Major banks, commercial enterprises and government organisations are using Open Source software in business critical applications.
The idea behind Open Source is simple. The source code for Open Source Software is in the public domain – moreover, there are no restrictions on the software being distributed, and the licence for the software does not include a royalty or fee. And because the software is in the public domain, users of Open Source Software benefit from improvements and developments being made by hundreds of developers around the world.
Because an organisation can access the source code, it has more control over finding and fixing problems, adding to or modifying the code to meet specific requirements, and choosing when and how to upgrade to the latest version.
iSource has developed knowledge and expertise in a stack of Open Source products. We do not sell these products, of course, but we can use them as part of any solution we deliver. Because we do not have to pay a royalty or fee for the code, it enables us to keep the costs of the solution we deliver to a minimum.
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