A community which aims at building bridges among different vistas of open source and the aspirants of open source technology.
Open Source Software is
Software developed in an open and collaborative
way by groups of developers
Software distributed with its source code in a
human readable format
Software licensed with a copyright license
compliant with the Open Source Definition (OSD)
3 C’s of Open Source
Code
Some popular world-class open source projects are Linux,
Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby. Get an idea and start implementing it using the tools present to you.
Collaborate
Collaborative tools are the backbone of the open source
way. Tools include version control systems, IRC, mailing
lists, wikis, blogs to help developers working on building
code together.
Community
Sharing ideas and developing code across the Internet with
developers all over the globe forms the community for most
open source projects.
Adoption
73 Million
Computers run on
Linux
100 Million
Smartphones run on
Android
500 Million
Websites are opened in
Mozilla Firefox
Choice
By its very nature, the source code of open source software is available to all, meaning that no one company owns the software. Any company can build upon open source software.It may be operated and maintained by multiple vendors, reducing both barriers to entry and exit. A customer can easily choose another vendor because they are not locked in to one vendor’s offering.
Reliability
Open source is peer reviewed software, which leads to more reliability. The infrastructure of the Internet is largely composed of open-source programs such as DNS, sendmail, Apache and languages such as HTML and Perl. They have proven to be both reliable and robust under the most strenuous conditions, namely the fast growth of the Internet.
Low Cost
Open source software is often developed through community forums and collaboratives. Developers volunteer their time and expertise, and are coordinated by fewer paid programmers. The lower overhead costs translates into substantial savings, as does the fact that open source software typically does not have a per-seat licensing cost.
Security
Open source enables anyone to examine software for security flaws. The continuous and broad peer-review enabled by publicly available source code improves security through the identification and elimination of defects that might otherwise be missed.
Fast Deployment
With open source software consumers needn’t wait years to deploy a solution. Open source software can be “test driven” prior to procurement, and is particularly suitable for inter-agency collaboration, rapid prototyping and experimentation. Both known and unanticipated users can be rapidly provisioned.
