Open source is registered as a certification mark by the non-profit software organization (Open Source Initiative Association of the United States) and is formally defined to describe the software that the source code can be used by the public, and the use of the software, Modifications and distributions are also not subject to license restrictions.
Open source software is usually copyrighted. Its license may contain some limitations: to deliberately protect its open source status, the author's identity announcement, or the development of control. In fact, open source software also involves the source code itself and the development process, covering three aspects of the meaning: free distribution of source code, modular system and market-style development-in this way, anyone anywhere can participate in the final product manufacturing, three aspects are closely related to each other, The market-based development process gives open source software a strong ability to make mistakes, because it exposes errors in the program to a large audience, who are potential mistakes. On the other hand, the fact that anyone can reuse and distribute the code for open source software supports the public interest, as the idea of innovation is shared across the marketplace. In addition, the term "open source" is extended to other intellectual groups, which are intellectual resources that can be obtained through public means, such as newspapers, courseware, etc.
Some progressive commentators in the United States point out that in a virtual environment like a network, the underlying code of the drive system, especially the communication protocols among the well-known applications, is, in a sense, like the laws of the real world. In other words, the code gives some specification of the behavior on the web, which encourages certain behaviors and restricts other behaviors, just like the laws of the real world. As a result, open source has led to a more democratic approach to development, in which a good idea will be shared collectively, not as an intellectual capital being caches by the individual. In this sense, open source is essentially a political philosophy.
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