Tuesday, April 26, 2011

History of open Source Software


The open source initiative formed in February 1998 by Raymond & Perens. With about 20 years of evidence from case histories of closed and open development already provided by the internet, the OSI continued to present the “open source” case to commercial businesses. They sought to bring a higher profile to the practical benefits of freely available source code, and wanted to bring major software businesses and other high-tech industries into open source.    

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