Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Free and Open Source Software

Free and Open Source Software - FOSS



Free and Open Source Software is a software that gives liberty to its users to study, change as well as improve its design through the easy accessibility of its source code.
This software is known by various other names like F/OSS i.e. Free/ Open Source Software, or FLOSS i.e. Free Libre Open Source Software, etc.
This software has been readily accepted by the individuals and corporates because of its high potential benefits.
In recent times, it has been observed that, the software industry has become very vivacious and strong as it has gained tremendous importance in every sector of the society.
The changes in the software market started taking place with the advent of FOSS. This has eventually resulted in lot of uneasiness to not only software users and providers but even to the service providers as the market has become too competitive.

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