Overview and History of Open Source Development

During the early days of software development, software was something that was available for free. But with the advancement in the software industry, propriety-software became the order of the day. However, in the late 90’s open source software based on GNU/Linux took the software world b storm. Free or open software was being developed and spoken about a little before this time as well, but it was during this time that people began to recognize the potential of open source software.

Open Source Software is a technology conceptualized by the developer community where the source code of particular software product is available to the users. The users can get the software for free and modify it. These software products have open-source licenses which allow users to change the software design as per requirement.
History of Open Source Development

A prominent benefit of open source software is that is the production cost of developing the software product decreases drastically. Added to this benefit is the fact that almost all open source software products are very stable and mature and help vendors as well as users to up their ROI by lowering the ownership costs. Software companies are warming up to the idea of having a global library through open source instead of their own internal library for reusing codes for various products.

Open Source CMS Development is already an established norm in the software world. India, being home to the largest number of internet users has lapped up the idea of open source. There are several providers of CMS Development Services in India that are doing good business from the open source model  It is thriving because of the symbiotic relationship between vendors and the community. Vendors are benefitting because they are earning from the paying users and the open source community is at an advantage as the development resources are free of cost! Some of popular open source projects are Perl Programming, Cygwin, etc. Commonly used open-source products are Browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, and the Apache OpenOffice Suite. 

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