Definitions for Open source
open source

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. open sourcenoun

   The practice of providing open-source code for a product.

2. open sourcenoun

   Open-source software in general.

3. open sourceverb

   To make open-source.

4. Etymology: Coined by Christine Peterson in January 1998.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Open source

   In production and development, open source as a philosophy promotes a universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of terms for the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open-source software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created. Generally, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. open source

   [common; also adj. open-source] Term coined in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoiding the negative connotations (to suits) of the term “free software”. For discussion of the follow-on tactics and their consequences, see the Open Source Initiative site.Five years after this term was invented, in 2003, it is worth noting the huge shift in assumptions it helped bring about, if only because the hacker culture's collective memory of what went before is in some ways blurring. Hackers have so completely refocused themselves around the idea and ideal of open source that we are beginning to forget that we used to do most of our work in closed-source environments. Until the late 1990s open source was a sporadic exception that usually had to live on top of a closed-source operating system and alongside closed-source tools; entire open-source environments like Linux and the *BSD systems didn't even exist in a usable form until around 1993 and weren't taken very seriously by anyone but a pioneering few until about five years later.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. open source

   To create a product or computer source code that is accessible to the public as an act of goodwill.

   Many software developers make their open source software accessible to the public as they feel the public can add value to the product.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on July 26, 2015  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Open source in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Open source in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Open source in a Sentence

1. Eric Xu:

   No matter what happens, the Android Community does not have any legal right to block any company from accessing its open-source license.

2. Bob Sutton:

   It’s Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, when revolutionaries win, they become the enemy of the next group to rise up. Obama was a radical before he became The Man. Apple is The Man. Microsoft is n’t a good enemy now that the new CEO talks about the importance of open-source software.

3. Ryutaro Mori:

   For a highly complex system like flying cars, the success highly depends on the integration of multidisciplinary knowledge and experiences, our unique advantage is that we, as a nonprofit, volunteer organization, encourage open-source collaborations.

4. Jamal Raad:

   Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has made Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Climate Mission plan an open source document, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's pleased to see Senator Warren taking up major elements of Senator Warren plan, washington Gov. Jay Inslee is particularly impressed that Senator Warren is adopting Senator Warren aggressive targets to reach 100 % clean energy in electricity, cars and buildings, ending coal power, and making a commitment to investing in good, union jobs and a just transition for front-line communities.

5. The United:

   We are monitoring all kinds of reports, open source reports, formal reporting. It is certainly of concern, the posture, so as far as being able to talk about any validity or verification I'm not going to do that.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Open_Source
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Open source
3. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#OpenSource