0-Open Source Culture overview

Before learning Linux, let's learn about the open source culture

Learning Focus:

• Understanding what an open source culture is
• The difference between open source software and free software

Learning content:

1. Open source. Open source is born in the software industry, open source not only represents the opening of software source code, it also means free, share and make full use of resources. Open source is a kind of spirit, open source is a kind of culture.

2. There are two main concepts in open source and free software worlds: The idea of the Free Software Foundation (softwate FOUNDATION,FSF) and the idea of open source Initiative,osi.

The FSF believes that free software should protect users from the following freedoms:

• The freedom to run any program for any purpose
• How the research program works and the freedom to modify according to individual needs, the ability to get the source code is its prerequisite
• Distributing copies to help other people around the freedom
• The freedom to improve the program and release it to the public in order to benefit the community as a whole.

The idea of open source is that programmers can read, distribute, and modify the source code of a particular software to make progress. It is not like the FSF to consider ethical requirements, but more focused on the technical value of software, distributed development of practical advantages.

0-Open Source Culture overview