Open source software may sound like just another passing buzz phrase, but it is no fly-by-nighter. It has been around for decades and we have all relied on it for some date. As more and more society are coming into direct contact with open source, it’s a good duration to ask what makes it so special.

The source here is source cipher, the human-readable (or at least programmer-readable) mold of a computer program.

Computer programs are

written in various programming languages (source code) and soon after translated by computer into directions a computer can follow directly (machine code). To run the program you only need the machine cipher. To discover how a program works, or manufacture changes, the source cipher is fundamental.

nearly none of the software used by the typical computer user comes with source cipher. Software giants like Microsoft and Adobe treat source cipher as a […]

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