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What is Open Source Software?
- Complete information at www.opensource.org
- Formal Definition (Version 1.8) at www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html
- "Before it was called Open Source, it was called Academia."
- Open publication; peer review.
- Many options examined before the "best" way is decided.
- Made possible at this scale because of the Internet.
- Internet made possible because of OSS.
- Rate of development scales with size of Internet.
- "Forked" from the Free Software Foundations' GPL.
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