Whittemore Library: The OPEN Movements: Open Technology / Open Source

Open Source is...

Open source technology is... software in which the source code used to create the program is freely available for the public to view, edit, and redistribute. Any type of software program can be open source, including operating systems (e.g., Linux), databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), applications (e.g., OpenOffice.org), games, and even programming languages (e.g., Python).

- from Open Source Technology and Esri

Open Source Initiative (NGO)
A general educational and advocacy organization meant to execute the same mission agreed on at the Free Software Summit held in April 1998. At the launch meeting, the original Board accepted this general mission and decided to focus specifically on explaining and protecting the "open source" label.

Selected Books from the Whittemore Library about Open Source Software

Software Adaptation in an Open Environment by Gerard Prudhomme
ISBN: 9781773615752
Publication Date: 2019
Software adaptation in an open environment examines various dimensions of software adaptation with a brief description on four different freedoms and benefits of using free software.