July 30, 2004
CIC Teaching and Learning Mentors
Institute
What is open
source?
l“When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.”
lThe Open Source Initiative
lThe open source manifesto
Eric
S. Raymond, 1997