Understanding Open Source

Understanding Open Source when the mean in Indonesian means Open Source is a development system that is not coordinated by an individual / central agency, but by actors who work together by utilizing the source code (source code) which spread and freely available (usually using Internet communications facilities).
This development pattern modeled on the style bazaar, so the pattern of Open Source has a feature for the community that is the encouragement that comes from the culture of giving, which means that when a community uses an Open Source program and has received a benefit would then be motivated to pose a question of what user can give back to the crowd.

Pattern of Open Source was born because freedom works, without the intervention of thinking and expressing what they want by using the knowledge and suitable products. Freedom becomes a major consideration when released to the public. Other communities have the freedom to study, work on, revise again, justify or even blame, but this freedom also comes with responsibility, not freely without responsibility.




Open source software is a term used for software that unlock / release the source code to be viewed by others and let others know the workings of the software and at the same time improving the existing weaknesses in the software.
And interesting and one advantage is that open source software can be obtained and used for free without paying a license. Usually people get this software from the Internet. One of the famous open source software is Linux.



The existence of open source software is greatly supported by the Internet. At first, Open source software is retrieved from the Internet and then used by the people and repaired if there is an error. The results of repair of open source are then published back through the Internet that allow others to use and improve it. And so on. It is now easy to get open source software on the internet.




Development of open source software involves a lot of people from all over the world who interact via the Internet. Then the rise of various kinds of software are made based on open-source published over the internet. This pattern has given rise to open source developers from around the world reliable.

Open Source, the term can be interpreted as the principles and methodologies that aim to promote open access to the stages of production and design on a product or any resources.
The term Open Source commonly applied to the source code (source code) of software created for the benefit of the general public with no limits on intellectual property rights. This principle provides freedom to the user to make the contents of a gradual and collaboration software.

With the advent of the internet, world of open source software development is very fast, many people have even suggested the development of open source software is faster than the development of Closed Source software.

Open source development model allows software development carried out in parallel with different objectives.
 This development method differs significantly in comparison with centralized methods commonly implemented in commercial software development company.

The word "open source" first appeared at a meeting in Palo Alto California. At that time, which is the Netscape Navigator browser developers want to release the source code of the product with the name Mozilla in January 1998. Record to differentiate themselves and avoid confrontation with ideological or connotative term Free Software pioneered by Richard Stallman. The originator of the term open source is: Christine Peterson, Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, Jon Hall, Sam Ockman, and Eric S. Raymond.

The term "open source" was later to become famous after being published by O'Reilly team through an event held in April 1999. The event was attended by celebrities involved in IT projects free open source, such as Linus Torvallds (inventor of Linux), Larry Wall, Brian Behlendorf, Eric Allman, Guido van Rossum (Python maker), Michael Tieman, Paul Vixie, Jamie Zawinski of Netscape, and Eric Raymond.

To keep the development of open source world, formed a body called the Open Source Initiative.
 This body was set out in 1998 by Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens. The definition of open source used herein Debian Free Software Guidelines.