The Rise Of Open-Source Software

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Open-source software powers nearly all the world’s major companies. This software is freely available, and is developed collaboratively, maintained by a broad network that includes everyone from unpaid volunteers to employees at competing tech companies. Here’s how giving away software for free has proven to be a viable business model.

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The Rise Of Open-Source Software

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27 COMMENTS

  1. Not Open Source… it's FREE and Open Source. You mention, by way of clips of interviews of collaborators the FREE part, but you yourself downplay it. It's disingenuous, please adjust yourself, and do better.

  2. Today, if your programming language is not open source is just ignored by developers, and if it has amazing ideas, some developer will invest his/her free time to reimplement an open source version.

  3. I know it's a miracle except for the fact that Microsoft still dominate the entire software industry with there OS lol, what's the criteria for success again ?

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