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Economic Impact of Open Source on Small Business by Mike Hendrickson · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries. The 8 most successful open source products ever. Posted in Tech blog on May 29th, 2009 by Pingdom Open source in itself is a success story. From being a niche concept, it has become a mainstream movement (well, more or less) and has received the attention of both individuals and businesses worldwide. There are thousands of open source projects and products out there, but which ones are the most successful?
By successful we mean widely used and widely known. Linux Why it is a success: Linux, hand in hand with GNU software as GNU/Linux, has come a long way since Linus Torvalds announced that he was creating an OS kernel based on Minix back in 1991. Ubuntu Why it is a success: Launched in 2004, Ubuntu is by far the most popular Linux distribution today, especially on the desktop side. Why it is a success: FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD have been well-respected server OS alternatives for a long time. MySQL Apache Firefox Why it is a success: Mozilla’s crowning achievement so far, the Firefox web browser has become a mega success. WordPress. IS 679 Team 5. A taxonomy for measuring the success of open source software projects | Ghapanchi. Proprietary software.
Proprietary software or closed source software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder with the intent that the licensee is given the right to use the software only under certain conditions, and restricted from other uses, such as modification, sharing, studying, redistribution, or reverse engineering.[1][2] Usually the source code of proprietary software is not made available. Complementary terms include free software,[2][3] licensed by the owner under more permissive terms, and public domain software, which is not subject to copyright and can be used for any purpose.
Proponents of free and open source software use proprietary or non-free to describe software that is not free or open source.[4][5] A related but distinct categorization in the software industry is commercial software, which refers to software produced for sale but not necessarily closed source. Software becoming proprietary[edit] Legal basis[edit] Limitations[edit] Similar terms[edit] Open source. Open Source Definition and Solutions. Open source is here to stay: Here's how to deal with it. Compiled by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Editor-in-Chief, Practical Technology and Chris Lindquist The success of open-source software has been remarkable, forcing even the largest commercial software vendors such as IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Oracle and Microsoft to acknowledge its influence and, in some cases, adopt its methods.
But its ubiquity can lead to more questions than answers. What is open source? Back in 1997, Bruce Perens, a prominent Linux operating system developer, wrote a document concerning the distribution and development of the Debian Linux distribution. Open source is essentially a cousin of the Free Software Movement, created in 1983 by Richard Stallman to promote the free distribution of software unfettered by standard proprietary code restrictions. Open source, once you strip out all the emotion, is simply a way to develop software. These ideas have caught fire because open-source delivers the goods. Continue Reading. O'Reilly Webcast: The Economic Impact of Open Source on Small Business.
Open World: The Open Sourcing of Everything. Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination.