open-source
[oh-puh n-sawrs, -sohrs]
- Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- pertaining to or denoting a product or system whose origins, formula, design, etc., are freely accessible to the public.
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Consequently, there were soon scores of wiki sites as well as open-source improvements to his software.
Nor did Microsoft transform its proprietary operating system into open-source code.
So long as Rozendaal continues to work in open-source code, the answer seems to be: forever.
For a long time, Firefox had the cool cache of being an free, open-source alternative browser.
The study is drawn entirely from open-source information, but often involving research in relatively denied areas.
Aleppo Conflict Map Shows Assad’s Control By NeighborhoodDavid Kilcullen, Nate Rosenblatt
March 10, 2014
open-source
- Relating to source code that is available to the public without charge. Open-source code is often enhanced, improved, and adapted for specific purposes by interested programmers, with the revised versions of the code are made available to the public. For example, most of the code in the Linux operating system is open-source.
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