How Open Source works

Going deep into open source now we need to know what is the difference between open source and freeware then we can easily understand how does it work

so, Open source is not necessarily free, and freeware is not necessarily open source: the terms are not, in fact, mutually exchangeable. However, there's a good deal of overlap between the two, and that which is freeware may also happen to be open source.

World into Open Source

Before going deep into this topic we need to know which companies are now into open source

1. Zenos
2. Mono(from Microsoft)
3. Apache
4. Sugar CRM
5. Drupal
6. Open Solaris
7. Java
8. MySQL

and if go on writing a ordered list like this becomes  this becomes so big that my blogging ends up writing only this post.

So even the world copied software Microsoft unwilling coming into this open source world makes us think how world is tending towards this open source.

Open Source

What is open Source ?

Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code.


Criteria of Open Source the open Source code must be:

1. Free Redistribution
2. Source Code
3. Derived Work
4. Integrity of Source Code(Author's)
5. Distribution of License
6. License must be Technologically Neutral.