Open Source Collaboration
Open source software is distinguished from most other commercial software because its development frequently takes place collaboratively among many individual developers, working alone or for different companies, without contracts or other formal arrangements among them. Worldwide communities of software engineers dynamically form and grow on the Internet. Participants discuss among themselves what needs to be implemented; allocate the design, programming, and documentation tasks to those who volunteer to do them; and eventually publish one or more working programs for all to use. That is how major open source programs like the Linux operating system and the Apache web server were initially developed.
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