>>> Open Source Software (OSS) is a computer software that is available in source code form the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.
>>> Open Source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open source software is the most prominent example of an open source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open content movements.
>>> The free software movement was launched in 1983. In 1998, a group of individuals advocated that the term free software should be replaced by open source software(OSS) as an expression which is less ambiguous and more comfortable for the corporate world. Software developers may want to publish their software with an open source license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand its internal functioning. Open source software generally allows anyone to create modifications of the software, port it to new operating systems and processor architectures, share it with others or, in some cases, market it. Scholars Casson and Ryan have pointed out several policy-based reasons for adoption of open source, in particular, the heightened value proposition from open source (when compared to most propriety formats) in the following categories :
- Security
- Affordability
- Transparency
- Perpetuity
- Interoperability
- Localization
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