What is “Open Source”?

| by Paula Brett | No Gravatar

Open Source stuff on the web is basically FREE stuff!

It could be a computer program, operating system or even a piece of software that is publically available for anyone to use and it’s free.

Open Source items in general can be freely modified and developed and redistributed.

Some of the best known Open Source products include:

firefox What is Open Source? Web Browser
wordpress What is Open Source? WordPress – blogging platform
Gimp for free image editing and creation Gimp – Image manipulation program
What is Open Source? Filezilla – FTP client
What is Open Source? Productivity Suite
What is Open Source? Cross platform sound editor
thunderbird What is Open Source? Email application
What is Open Source? Web authoring system – HTML editor
What is Open Source? Anti-virus software
What is Open Source? File archiver with high compression ratio
What is Open Source?

Cross platform media player

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I’m sure you have more on your list — why not leave a comment below and tell us what you use?

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  1. 4 Responses to “What is “Open Source”?”

  2. By Robert HagglesNo Gravatar on Nov 13, 2008 | | Reply

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  3. By Paula BrettNo Gravatar on Nov 13, 2008 | | Reply

    That looks great, Robert — thank you for sharing. I’m sure all my eBay readers will be able to make good use of that :)

    Paula

  4. By HarryNo Gravatar on Nov 30, 2008 | | Reply

    Although I’m quite willing to pay for good software I know that there is a lot of great free and esspecially good open sources projects on the Internet that will do the job just as well.

    I recently came accross the site freeapps.co.uk with many applications I’d not come accross before. sourceforge.net is great source of open source software projects.

    Thanks for the post.

    Harry

    Harry’s last blog post..Creating Screen Capture Videos

  5. By Paula BrettNo Gravatar on Nov 30, 2008 | | Reply

    Thanks, Harry, a couple of great resources there, I’m sure my readers will make good use of them.

    There’s nothing better than finding a great `free’ resource, is there?

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