Open source

The previous open source article now exists at open-source software. This article needs help with content that is more about the environment of open source and its history.

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Open source is generally a philosophy or otherwise a pragmatic methodology related to production practices that promote access to the origins of the products. Developers or producers used many equivalent phrases before the open source label became widely adopted, as the early Internet years provided a rapid convergence of very diverse production models. With the increase of interactive communities and their direct involvement with the Internet, open-source software yields the most prominent society of open source. The Internet started in 1969 with open standards like the RFCs, but it wasn't until 1998 that open source became a label to denote to software the same effort which began the Internet.

Related Topics:
Internet - Open-source software - Open standards - RFCs

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