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[[Programmer]]s who support the open-source-movement philosophy contribute to the open-source community by voluntarily writing and exchanging programming code for [[software development]].<ref name="Wyllys2000">Wyllys, R.E. (2000). [http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/OpenSourceOverview.html Overview of the Open-Source Movement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316131053/https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/OpenSourceOverview.html |date=2016-03-16 }}. Retrieved November 22, 2009, from The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library & Information Science</ref> The term ''open source'' requires that no one can [[Discrimination|discriminate]] against a group in not sharing the edited code or hinder others from editing their already-edited work. This approach to software development allows anyone to obtain and modify open-source code. These modifications are distributed back to the developers within the open-source community of people who are working with the software. In this way, the identities of all individuals participating in code modification are disclosed and the transformation of the code is documented over time.<ref name="ref_e_Warger">Warger, T.
(2002)[http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0233.pdf The Open Source Movement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717100415/http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0233.pdf |date=2011-07-17 }}. Retrieved November 22, 2009, from Education Resources Information Center</ref> This method makes it difficult to establish ownership of a particular bit of code but is in keeping with the open-source-movement philosophy. These goals promote the production of high-quality programs as well as working cooperatively with other similarly-minded people to improve open-source technology.<ref name="Wyllys2000" /></onlyinclude>
== Brief history ==
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The label ''open source'' was created and adopted by a group of people in the [[free software movement]] at a strategy session<ref name=osihistory>{{Cite web
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}}</ref> held at [[Palo Alto, California]], in reaction to [[Netscape Communications Corporation|Netscape]]'s January 1998 announcement of a source-code release for [[Netscape Navigator|Navigator]]. One of the reasons behind using the term was that "the advantage of using the term open source is that the business world usually tries to keep free technologies from being installed."<ref>[http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2000-fall/4211-3/a-brief-history-of-the-opensource-movement/ A Brief History of the Open-Source Movement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411022933/http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2000-fall/4211-3/a-brief-history-of-the-opensource-movement/ |date=2011-04-11 }}. Sloanreview.mit.edu (2011-11-18). Retrieved on 2011-11-30.</ref> Those people who adopted the term used the opportunity before the release of Navigator's source code to free themselves of the ideological and confrontational connotations of the term "free software". Later in February 1998, [[Bruce Perens]] and [[Eric S. Raymond]] founded an organization called [[Open Source Initiative]] (OSI) "as an educational, advocacy, and stewardship organization at a cusp moment in the history of that culture."<ref name="osihis">[http://www.opensource.org/history History of the OSI | Open Source Initiative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021001164015/http://www.opensource.org/docs/history.php |date=2002-10-01 }}. Opensource.org. Retrieved on 2011-11-30.</ref>
=== Evolution ===
In the early days of computer programming, a difference between hardware and software did not exist. The user and programmer of a computer were one and the same. When the first commercial electronic computer was introduced by [[IBM]] in 1952, the machine was hard to maintain and expensive. Putting the price of the machine aside, it was the software that caused the problem when owning one of these computers. Then in 1952, a collaboration of all the owners of the computer got together and created a set of tools. The collaboration of people were in a group called PACT (The Project for the Advancement of Coding techniques). After passing this hurdle, in 1956, the Eisenhower administration decided to put restrictions on the types of sales [[AT&T]] could make. This did not stop the inventors from developing new ideas of how to bring the computer to the mass population. The next step was making the computer more affordable which slowly developed through different companies. Then they had to develop software that would host multiple users. [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] computation center developed one of the first systems, CTSS (Compatible Time-Sharing System). This laid the foundation for many more systems, and what we now call the open-source software movement.<ref>Weber, Steven. The Success of Open Source. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2004. Print pg.20–28. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01858-7}} This whole paragraph is referenced to Steven Weber</ref>
The open-source movement is branched from the [[free software movement]] which began in the late 80s with the launching of the GNU project by [[Richard Stallman]].<ref name="ref_e_Tennant">Tennant, D. (2008, August 11). Standing on Principle. Computerworld, p. 4. Retrieved from Business Source Premier database.</ref> Stallman is regarded within the open-source community as sharing a key role in the conceptualization of freely-shared source code for software development.<ref name="ref_e_Warger" /> The term "[[free software]]" in the free software movement is meant to imply freedom of software exchange and modification. The term does not refer to any monetary freedom.<ref name="ref_e_Warger" /> Both the free-software movement and the open-source movement share this view of free exchange of [[source code|programming code]], and this is often why both of the movements are sometimes referenced in literature as part of the [[FOSS]] or "Free and Open Software" or [[FLOSS]] "Free/Libre Open-Source" communities.
These movements share fundamental differences in the view on open software. The main, factionalizing difference between the groups is the relationship between open-source and proprietary software. Often, makers of [[proprietary software]], such as [[Microsoft]], may make efforts to support open-source software to remain competitive.<ref name="ref_a1">Taft, D. K. (2009, November 3). [
In contrast, members of the free-software community maintain the vision that all software is a part of freedom of speech<ref name="ref_e_Warger" /> and that proprietary software is unethical and unjust.<ref name="ref_e_Warger" /> The free-software movement openly champions this belief through talks that denounce proprietary software. As a whole, the community refuses to support proprietary software. Further there are external motivations for these developers. One motivation is that, when a programmer fixes a bug or makes a program it benefits others in an open-source environment. Another motivation is that a programmer can work on multiple projects that they find interesting and enjoyable. Programming in the open-source world can also lead to commercial job offers or entrance into the venture capital community. These are just a few reasons why open-source programmers continue to create and advance software.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Lerner | first1 = Josh | last2 = Tirole | first2 = Jean | citeseerx = 10.1.1.145.3577 | title = The simple Economics of Open Source | publisher = National Bureau of Economic Research | ___location = Cambridge, MA. | date = March 2000 | url = http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/simple.pdf | access-date = 2015-06-10 | archive-date = 2017-12-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171215003553/http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/simple.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
While cognizant of the fact that both
== Legal issues ==
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In the court case "[[Jacobsen v. Katzer]]", the plaintiff sued the defendant for failing to put the required attribution notices in his modified version of the software, thereby violating license. The defendant claimed Artistic License in not adhering to the conditions of the software's use, but the wording of the attribution notice decided that this was not the case. "Jacobsen v Katzer" established open-source software's equality to proprietary software in the eyes of the law.
In a court case accusing Microsoft of being a monopoly, Linux and open-source software was introduced in court to prove that Microsoft had valid competitors and was grouped in with [[Apple Inc.|Apple]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
There are resources available for those involved open-source projects in need of legal advice. The [[Software Freedom Law Center]] features a primer on open-source legal issues. International Free and Open Source Software Law Review offers peer-reviewed information for lawyers on free-software issues.
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The [[Open Source Initiative]] (OSI) was instrumental in the formalization of the open-source movement. The OSI was founded by Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens in February 1998 with the purpose of providing general education and advocacy of the open-source label through the creation of the Open Source Definition that was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The OSI has become one of the main supporters and advocators of the open-source movement.<ref name="osihis" />
In February 1998, the open-source movement was adopted, formalized, and spearheaded by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), an organization formed to market software "as something more amenable to commercial business use"<ref name="ref_e_Warger" /> The OSI
The main tool they adopted for this was [[The Open Source Definition]].<ref>[http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd The Open Source Definition | Open Source Initiative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607054201/http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd |date=2007-06-07 }}. Opensource.org. Retrieved on 2011-11-30.</ref>
The open-source label was conceived at a strategy session that was held on February 3, 1998 in Palo Alto, California and on April 8 of the same year, the attendees of Tim O’Reilly's Free Software Summit voted to promote the use of the term
Overall, the software developments that have come out of the open-source movement have not been unique to the computer-science field, but they have been successful in developing alternatives to propriety software. Members of the open-source community improve upon code and write programs that can rival much of the propriety software that is already available.<ref name="ref_e_Warger" />
The rhetorical discourse used in open-source movements is now being broadened to include a larger group of non-expert users as well as advocacy organizations. Several organized groups such as the Creative Commons and global development agencies have also adopted the open-source concepts according to their own aims and for their own purposes.<ref name="Sullivan">{{Cite journal | last1 = Sullivan | first1 =
The factors affecting the open-source movement's legal formalization are primarily based on recent political discussion over copyright, appropriation, and intellectual property.<ref name="Ceraso">{{Cite journal | last1 = Ceraso | first1 = A. | last2 = Pruchnic | first2 = J. | year = 2011 | title = Introduction: Open source culture and aesthetics | journal = Criticism | volume = 53 | issue = 3 | page = 337 | doi = 10.1353/crt.2011.0026
== Social structure of open source contribution teams ==
Historically, researchers have characterized [[open-source]] contributors as a centralized, onion-shaped group.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1145/512035.512055 |chapter=Evolution patterns of open-source software systems and communities |title=Proceedings of the international workshop on Principles of software evolution - IWPSE '02 |year=2002 |last1=Nakakoji |first1=Kumiyo |last2=Yamamoto |first2=Yasuhiro |last3=Nishinaka |first3=Yoshiyuki |last4=Kishida |first4=Kouichi |last5=Ye |first5=Yunwen |page=76 |isbn=978-1-58113-545-9 |s2cid=15341686 }}</ref> The center of the onion consists of the core contributors who drive the project forward through large amounts of [[source code|code]] and software design choices. The second-most layer are contributors who respond to [[pull request]]s and [[software bug|bug]] reports. The third-most layer out are contributors who mainly submit bug reports. The farthest out layer are those who watch the repository and users of the software that's generated. This model has been used in research to understand the lifecycle of open-source software, understand contributors to open-source software projects, how tools such as can help contributors at the various levels of involvement in the project, and further understand how the distributed nature of open source software may affect the productivity of developers.<ref name=Crowston>{{cite journal |last1=Crowston |first1=Kevin |last2=Howison |first2=James |title=The social structure of free and open source software development |journal=First Monday |date=7 February 2005 |doi=10.5210/fm.v10i2.1207 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1145/2597073.2597114 |chapter=Understanding 'watchers' on GitHub |title=Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories - MSR 2014 |year=2014 |last1=Sheoran |first1=Jyoti |last2=Blincoe |first2=Kelly |last3=Kalliamvakou |first3=Eirini |last4=Damian |first4=Daniela |last5=Ell |first5=Jordan |pages=336–339 |isbn=978-1-4503-2863-0 |s2cid=11496776 }}</ref><ref name=Middleton>{{cite book |doi=10.1145/3196398.3196429 |chapter=Which contributions predict whether developers are accepted into github teams |title=Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories |year=2018 |last1=Middleton |first1=Justin |last2=Murphy-Hill |first2=Emerson |last3=Green |first3=Demetrius |last4=Meade |first4=Adam |last5=Mayer |first5=Roger |last6=White |first6=David |last7=McDonald |first7=Steve |pages=403–413 |isbn=978-1-4503-5716-6 |s2cid=13695100 }}</ref>
Some researchers have disagreed with this model. Crowston et al.'s work has found that some teams are much less centralized and follow a more distributed workflow pattern.<ref name="Crowston" /> The authors report that there's a weak correlation between project size and centralization, with smaller projects being more centralized and larger projects showing less centralization. However, the authors only looked at bug reporting and fixing, so it remains unclear whether this pattern is only associated with bug finding and fixing or if centralization does become more distributed with size for every aspect of the open-source paradigm.
An understanding of a team's centralization versus distributed nature is important as it may inform tool design and aid new developers in understanding a team's dynamic. One concern with open-source development is the high turnover rate of developers, even among core contributors (those at the center of the "onion").<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Robles|first=G|author2=J. M. Gonzalez-Barahona|author3=I. Herraiz|title=Evolution of the core team of developers in libre software projects|journal=Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories|date=2009|pages=167–170}}</ref> In order to continue an open-source project, new developers must continually join but must also have the necessary skill-set to contribute quality code to the project. Through a study of [[GitHub]] contribution on open-source projects, Middleton et al. found that the largest predictor of contributors becoming full-fledged members of an open-source team (moving to the "core" of the "onion") was whether they submitted and commented on pull requests. The authors then suggest that GitHub, as a tool, can aid in this process by supporting "checkbox" features on a team's open-source project that urge contributors to take part in these activities.<ref name="Middleton" />
== Youth engagement ==
The open-source community has long recognized the importance of engaging younger generations to ensure the sustainability and innovation of open-source projects. However, concerns have been raised about the aging demographic of open source contributors and the challenges of attracting younger developers. In 2010, James Bottomley, a prominent [[Linux]] [[kernel (operating system)|kernel]] maintainer, observed the "graying" of the Linux kernel community, a trend that continues today.[Who can figure out and code, in future generations, with no dox], David Nalley, president of the [[Apache Software Foundation]] (ASF), emphasized that maintaining [[legacy code]] is often unappealing to younger developers, who prefer to work on new and innovative projects.<ref>{{cite web | last=Vaughan-Nichols | first=Steven J. | title=The graying open source community needs fresh blood | website=The Register | date=2024-07-15 | url=https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/15/opinion_open_source_attract_devs/ | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref>
While contributing to open source projects can provide valuable experience in development, documentation, internationalization, and other areas, barriers to entry often make it difficult for newcomers, particularly younger individuals, to get involved. These challenges include technical, psychological, and motivational factors.<ref>{{cite web | last=Proven | first=Liam | title=Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? | website=The Register | date=2025-02-14 | url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/youngsters_in_foss/ | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref>
To address these challenges, initiatives like the [https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lkmp Linux Kernel Mentorship Program] aim to recruit and train new developers. The LFX Mentorship Program also seeks to sponsor and mentor the next generation of open source developers and leaders across various projects.<ref>{{cite web | title=LFX Mentorship | website=[[Linux Foundation]] | url=https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/mentorship/ | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref>
== Motivations of programmers ==
{{See also |Motivations for online participation}}
With the growth and attention on the open-source movement, the reasons and motivations of programmers for creating code for free has been under investigation. In a paper from the 15th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association on the open-source movement, the incentives of programmers on an individual level as well as on a company or network level were analyzed. What is essentially the intellectual gift giving of talented programmers challenges the "self-interested-economic-agent paradigm",<ref name=Lerner>{{Cite journal|last=Lerner|first=Josh|author2=Jean Tirole|title=The open source movement: Key research questions|journal=European Economic Review|date=9 May 2001|volume=45|issue=4–6|pages=819–826
* '''Altruism''': The argument for altruism is limited as an explanation because though some exists, the programmers do not focus their kindness on more charitable causes.{{Citation needed|date=March 2018|reason=This claim is not based on empirical data but on the speculations of Lerner et al., which are not supported by any empirical evidence (how did this ever pass peer-review?). The claim should either be supported by empirical data, or the information on Wikipedia should be rephrased for clarity.}} If the generosity of working for free was a viable motivation for such a prevalent movement, it is curious why such a trend has not been seen in industries such as biotechnology that would have a much bigger impact on the public good.<ref name="Lerner" />
* '''Community sharing and improvement''': The online community is an environment that promotes continual improvements, modifications, and contributions to each other's work. A programmer can easily benefit from open-source software because by making it public, other testers and subprograms can remove bugs, tailor code to other purposes, and find problems. This kind of peer-editing feature of open-source software promotes better programs and a higher standard of code.<ref name="Lerner" />
* '''Recognition''': Though a project may not be associated with a specific individual, the contributors are often recognized and marked on a project's server or awarded [[Reputation system|social reputation]]. This allows for programmers to receive public recognition for their skills, promoting career opportunities and exposure. In fact, the founders of [[Sun Microsystems]] and [[Netscape]] began as open-source programmers.<ref name="Lerner" />
* '''Ego''': "If they are somehow assigned to a trivial problem and that is their only possible task, they may spend six months coming up with a bewildering architecture...merely to show their friends and colleagues what a tough nut they are trying to crack."<ref name=Greenspun>{{Cite web|last=Greenspun|first=Philip|title=Managing Software Engineers|url=http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-software-engineers|
* '''Creative expression''': Personal satisfaction also comes from the act of writing software as an equivalent to creative self
== Gender diversity of programmers ==
{{See also|Diversity in open-source software}}
The vast majority of programmers in open-source communities are male. In a 2006 study for the European Union on free and open-source software communities, researchers found that only 1.5% of all contributors are female.<ref>Nafus, Dawn, James Leach, and Bernhard Krieger. "Gender: Integrated report of findings." ''FLOSSPOLS, Deliverable D'' 16 (2006).</ref> Although women are generally underrepresented in computing, the percentage of women in tech professions is actually much higher, close to 25%.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/womenintech_facts_fullreport_05132016.pdf |title=Women in tech: The facts |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-date=14 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514211516/https://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/womenintech_facts_fullreport_05132016.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> This discrepancy suggests that female programmers are overall less likely than male programmers to participate in open-source projects.
Some research and interviews with members of open-source projects have described a male-dominated culture within open-source communities that can be unwelcoming or hostile towards females.<ref name=Nafus2012>{{cite journal |last1=Nafus |first1=Dawn |title='Patches don't have gender': What is not open in open source software |journal=New Media & Society |date=1 June 2012 |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=669–683 |doi=10.1177/1461444811422887 |s2cid=206727320 }}</ref> There are initiatives such as [[Outreachy]] that aim to support more women and other underrepresented gender identities to participate in open-source software. However, within the discussion forums of open-source projects the topic of gender diversity can be highly controversial and even inflammatory.<ref name=Nafus2012/> A central vision in open-source software is that because the software is built and maintained on the merit of individual code contributions, open-source communities should act as a meritocracy.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |doi=10.1145/2702123.2702549 |chapter=Gender and Tenure Diversity in GitHub Teams |title=Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |year=2015 |last1=Vasilescu |first1=Bogdan |last2=Posnett |first2=Daryl |last3=Ray |first3=Baishakhi |last4=Van Den Brand |first4=Mark G.J. |last5=Serebrenik |first5=Alexander |last6=Devanbu |first6=Premkumar |last7=Filkov |first7=Vladimir |pages=3789–3798 |isbn=978-1-4503-3145-6 |s2cid=11705263 }}</ref> In a meritocracy, the importance of an individual in the community depends on the quality of their individual contributions and not demographic factors such as age, race, religion, or gender. Thus proposing changes to the community based on gender, for example, to make the community more inviting towards females, go against the ideal of a meritocracy by targeting certain programmers by gender and not based on their skill alone.<ref name=Nafus2012/>
There is evidence that gender does impact a programmer's perceived merit in the community. A 2016 study identified the gender of over one million programmers on [[GitHub]], by linking the programmer's [[GitHub]] account to their other social media accounts.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Terrell |first1=Josh |last2=Kofink |first2=Andrew |last3=Middleton |first3=Justin |last4=Rainear |first4=Clarissa |last5=Murphy-Hill |first5=Emerson |last6=Parnin |first6=Chris |last7=Stallings |first7=Jon |title=Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men |journal=PeerJ Computer Science |date=1 May 2017 |volume=3 |article-number=e111 |doi=10.7717/peerj-cs.111 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Between male and female programmers, the researchers found that female programmers were actually ''more'' ''likely'' to have their pull requests accepted into the project than male programmers, however only when the female had a gender-neutral profile. When females had profiles with a name or image that identified them as female, they were less likely than male programmers to have their pull requests accepted. Another study in 2015 found that of open-source projects on GitHub, gender diversity was a significant positive predictor of a team's productivity, meaning that open-source teams with a more even mix of different genders tended to be more highly productive.<ref name=":1" />
Many projects have adopted the [[Contributor Covenant]] code of conduct in an attempt to address concerns of harassment of minority developers. Anyone found breaking the code of conduct can be disciplined and ultimately removed from the project.
In order to avoid offense to minorities many software projects have started to mandate the use of [[inclusive language]] and terminology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inclusive Naming Initiative |url=https://inclusivenaming.org/ |access-date=22 October 2021 |archive-date=3 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203010436/https://inclusivenaming.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Evidence of open-source adoption ==
{{Main |Free and open-source software#Adoption}}
Libraries are using open-source software to develop information as well as library services. The purpose of open source is to provide a software that is cheaper, reliable and has better quality. The one feature that makes this software so sought after is that it is free. Libraries in particular benefit from this movement because of the resources it provides. They also promote the same ideas of learning and understanding new information through the resources of other people. Open source allows a sense of community. It is an invitation for anyone to provide information about various topics. The open-source tools even allow libraries to create web-based catalogs. According to the IT source there are various library programs that benefit from this.<ref name="infotoday">{{Cite journal|author=Poynder, Richard|year=2001|url=http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct01/poynder.htm
'''Government agencies and infrastructure software''' — Government Agencies are utilizing open-source infrastructure software, like the Linux operating system and the Apache Web-server into software, to manage information.<ref name=
'''Open-source movement in the military''' — Open-source movement has potential to help in the military. The open-source software allows anyone to make changes that will improve it. This is a form of invitation for people to put their minds together to grow a software in a cost efficient manner. The reason the military is so interested is because it is possible that this software can increase speed and flexibility. Although there are security setbacks to this idea due to the fact that anyone has access to change the software, the advantages can outweigh the disadvantages. The fact that the open-source programs can be modified quickly is crucial.
A support group was formed to test these theories. The [[Mil-OSS|Military Open Source Software Working Group]] was organized in 2009 and held over 120 military members. Their purpose was to bring together software developers and contractors from the military to discover new ideas for reuse and collaboration. Overall, open-source software in the military is an intriguing idea that has potential drawbacks but they are not enough to offset the advantages.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Toon|first=John|year=2009|url=http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/casestudy/open-source-mil-oss-military-software|title=Open Source Movement May Accelerate Military Software Development|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Research Institute]]|
'''Open source in education''' — Colleges and organizations use software predominantly online to educate their students. Open-source technology is being adopted by many institutions because it can save these institutions from paying companies to provide them with these administrative software systems. One of the first major colleges to adopt an open-source system was Colorado State University in 2009 with many others following after that. Colorado State Universities system was produced by the [[Kuali]] Foundation who has become a major player in open-source administrative systems. The Kuali Foundation defines itself as a group of organizations that aims to "build and sustain open-source software for higher education, by higher education."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-06-12 |title=About the Kuali Community {{!}} Kuali Foundation |url=https://www.kuali.org/about |access-date=2024-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612222235/https://www.kuali.org/about |archive-date=2010-06-12 |url-status=live }}</ref> There are many other examples of open-source instruments being used in education other than the Kuali Foundation as well.
"For educators, The Open Source Movement allowed access to software that could be used in teaching students how to apply the theories they were learning".<ref>St.Amant & Ballentine 2011 p.343</ref> With open networks and software, teachers are able to share lessons, lectures, and other course materials within a community. OpenTechComm is a program that is dedicated to "open to access, open to use, and open to edit — textbook or pedagogical resource that teachers of technical and professional communication courses at every level can rely on to craft free offerings to their students."<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Still, Brian|year=2010|url=https://doi.org/10.2190/TW.40.2.g|title=A Dozen Years after Open Source's 1998 Birth, It's Time for OpenTechComm|journal=Journal of Technical Writing and Communication|volume=40|issue=2|pages=219–228 |doi=10.2190/TW.40.2.g |access-date=2025-01-29}}</ref> As stated earlier, access to programs like this would be much more cost efficient for educational departments.
'''Open source in healthcare''' — Created in June 2009 by the nonprofit eHealthNigeria, the open-source software [[OpenMRS]] is used to document health care in Nigeria. The use of this software began in Kaduna, Nigeria to serve the purpose of public health. OpenMRS manages features such as alerting health care workers when patients show warning signs for conditions and records births and deaths daily, among other features. The success of this software is caused by its ease of use for those first being introduced to the technology, compared to more complex proprietary healthcare software available in first world countries. This software is community-developed and can be used freely by anyone, characteristic of open-source applications. So far, OpenMRS is being used in Rwanda, Mozambique, Haiti, India, China, and the Philippines.<ref>eHealthNigeria. (2012). [http://ehealthnigeria.org/home/faq/ eHealthNigeria: FAQs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104064547/http://ehealthnigeria.org/home/faq/ |date=2012-01-04 }}. Retrieved Feb 4, 2012</ref> The impact of open source in healthcare is also observed by Apelon Inc, the "leading provider of terminology and data interoperability solutions". Recently, its Distributed Terminology System (Open DTS) began supporting the open-source MySQL database system. This essentially allows for open-source software to be used in healthcare, lessening the dependence on expensive proprietary healthcare software. Due to open-source software, the healthcare industry has available a free open-source solution to implement healthcare standards. Not only does open source benefit healthcare economically, but the lesser dependence on proprietary software allows for easier integration of various systems, regardless of the developer.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Apelon Announces Availability of a Completely Open Source Terminology Management Solution |publisher=Apelon |date=17 January 2012 |url=https://www.apelon.com/news/item/apelon-releases-an-open-source-terminology-solution |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-date=2 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302204400/https://www.apelon.com/news/item/apelon-releases-an-open-source-terminology-solution |url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Companies ===<!--could be renamed to sth like "in the corporate world -->
{{See also
====IBM====
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Originally, IBM was not the company that branched out to any means of open source software. They upheld into believing that intellectual property along with other privatized means of software around the 1990s.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last1=Munga |first1=Neeshal |last2=Fogwill |first2=Thomas |last3=Williams |first3=Quentin |chapter=The adoption of open source software in business models: A Red Hat and IBM case study |date=2009-10-12 |title=Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists |chapter-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1632149.1632165 |series=SAICSIT '09 |___location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=112–121 |doi=10.1145/1632149.1632165 |isbn=978-1-60558-643-4}}</ref> From a citation, it wasn't until IBM was challenged by the evolving competitive market, specifically from Microsoft, that they decided to invest their resources more into open source software. Since then, their focus shifted more on customer service and a more robust software support.<ref name=":4" /> [[IBM]] has been a leading proponent of the [[Open Source Initiative]], and began supporting [[Linux]] in 1998.<ref name=":3">{{cite web |date=March 2, 1999 |title=IBM launches biggest Linux lineup ever |url=http://www.ibm.com/news/1999/03/02.phtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991110114228/http://www.ibm.com/news/1999/03/02.phtml |archive-date=November 10, 1999 |publisher=IBM}}</ref>
[[File:IDE - eclipse.png|alt=The Eclipse IDE with sample code|thumb|The Eclipse IDE, that IBM released as open source]]
As another example, IBM had decided to make the Eclipse IDE(integrated development environment) open-source causing other companies to release their other IDEs due to Eclipse's popularity and outreach to the market.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fitzgerald |first=Brian |date=2006 |title=The Transformation of Open Source Software |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25148740 |journal=MIS Quarterly |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=587–598 |doi=10.2307/25148740 |jstor=25148740 |issn=0276-7783}}</ref>
====Microsoft====
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Before summer of 2008, [[Microsoft]] has generally been known as an enemy of the open-source community{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}. The company's anti-open-source sentiment was enforced by former CEO [[Steve Ballmer]], who referred to Linux, a widely used open-source software, as a "cancer that attaches itself ... to everything it touches."<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 1, 2001|title=Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times|url=http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html|url-status=live|access-date=June 27, 2021|website=Chicago Sun-Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011108013601/http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html|archive-date=2001-11-08}}</ref> Microsoft also threatened Linux that they would charge royalties for violating 235 of their patents.
In 2004, Microsoft lost a European Union court case,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20041222205501273|title=Groklaw.net – The EU Microsoft Decision – December 2004|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022024339/http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20041222205501273|url-status=dead}}</ref> and lost the appeal in 2007,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070917053717322|title=Groklaw.net – EU Ct. of 1st Instance: Microsoft Abused its Dominant Position – Updated – September 2007|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023918/http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070917053717322|url-status=live}}</ref> and their further appeal in 2012:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120627094954981|title=Groklaw.net Microsoft Loses Its EU Appeal|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022024358/http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120627094954981|url-status=dead}}</ref> being convicted of abusing its dominant position. Specifically they had withheld inter-operability information with the open-source [[Samba (software)]] project, which can be run on many platforms and aims to "removing barriers to interoperability".{{quote without source|date=April 2021}}
In 2008, however, Sam Ramji, the then head of open-source-software strategy in Microsoft, began working closely with Bill Gates to develop a pro-open-source attitude within the software industry as well as Microsoft itself. Ramji, before leaving the company in 2009, built Microsoft's familiarity and involvement with open source, which is evident in Microsoft's contributions of open-source code to [[Microsoft Azure]] among other projects. These contributions would have been previously unimaginable by Microsoft.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Metz |first1=Cade |title=Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/01/meet-bill-gates/ |magazine=Wired |date=30 January 2012 |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419144949/https://www.wired.com/2012/01/meet-bill-gates/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Microsoft's change in attitude about open source and efforts to build a stronger open-source community is evidence of the growing adoption and adaptation of open source.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Metz |first1=Cade |title=How Microsoft Learned to Stop Worrying and (Almost) Love Open Source |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/11/how-microsoft-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-almost-love-open-source/ |magazine=Wired |date=4 November 2011 |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025170156/https://www.wired.com/2011/11/how-microsoft-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-almost-love-open-source/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== See also ==
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* [[Mass collaboration]]
* [[Digital rights]]
* [[List of free and open-source software packages]]
* [[Open-design movement]]
* [[Open-source appropriate technology]]
* [[Open-source hardware]]
* [[Sharing economy]]
* [[Peer production]]
* ''[[The Cathedral and the Bazaar]]'', a book by [[Eric S. Raymond]] on software engineering methods
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== Further reading ==
* {{
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|first1=J
|title=Open source movements as a model for organising
|journal=[[European Journal of Information Systems]]
|date=2000 |volume=9
|issue=4
|pages=208–216
|doi=10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000373
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* {{Cite book
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|last=Schrape |first=Jan-Felix
|year=
|title=Open-source projects as incubators of innovation. From niche phenomenon to integral part of the industry
|journal=[[Convergence (journal)|Convergence]]
|volume= 25|
|pages=409–427
|doi=10.1177/1354856517735795
|s2cid=149165772
}}
* {{Cite web
|author=Software Freedom Law Center
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|title=The Open Source Movement
|url=http://www.theopensourcemovement.com
|access-date=25 April 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729110903/http://www.theopensourcemovement.com/
|archive-date=29 July 2013
|url-status=dead
}}
* {{Cite journal
|last=Rosen |first=Lawrence
|date=July 2009
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|title=Bad facts make good law: The Jacobsen case and Open Source
|publisher=[[Software Freedom Law Center, Inc]]
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|volume=1
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|pages=27–32
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* {{Cite journal
|last=Goettsch |first=Kerry D.
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|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jltp2003&div=26&g_sent=1&collection=journals#588
|journal=[[Journal of Law, Technology & Policy]]
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* {{Cite book
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|year = 2011
|title = Open Source Software, Access, and Content creation in the global economy
|url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
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* {{cite web|title=The Online Revolution|url=http://ssy.org.uk/2012/01/the-online-revolution/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718231856/http://ssy.org.uk/2012/01/the-online-revolution/|archivedate=July 18, 2013|author=James McIntyre |date=January 31, 2012|publisher=[[Scottish Socialist Youth]]}}
* {{cite book
|last1=Weber
|first1=Steven
|title=The Success of Open Source
|date=2005
|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]
|___location=Cambridge
|isbn=9780674018587
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* {{cite journal
|last1=Carillo
|first1=Kevin |last2=Okoli
|first2=Chitu
|title=The Open Source Movement: A Revolution in Software Development
|journal=Journal of Computer Information Systems
|date=2008
|volume=49
|issue=2
|pages=1–9
|doi=10.1080/08874417.2009.11646043
|doi-broken-date=12 July 2025
|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08874417.2009.11646043
}}
* {{cite book
|last1=Tozzi
|first1=Christopher
|title=For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
|date=2017
|publisher=[[MIT Press]] |isbn=9780262341172
|url=https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3528/For-Fun-and-ProfitA-History-of-the-Free-and-Open
}}
== External links ==
* [https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/mentorship/ LFX Mentorship Program] by the [[Linux Foundation]]
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