The Open Source Paradigm
The open source paradigm is transforming software development and distribution around the world. More and more consumers, companies, and government agencies are now demanding that they be allowed software freedom as enunciated in the five Open Source Principles from Chapter 1: The freedom to use, copy, modify, and distribute software, to have the source code, and to combine open source software with other software.
I used the word paradigm because it has an appropriately broad definition:
Paradigm: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English ...
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