{"id":383,"date":"2017-06-09T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=383"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:58:14","slug":"the-need-of-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"The Need of Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is <a title=\"What is open source? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/open-source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open source<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a title=\"What is open source? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/open-source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/open-source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the case of an <a title=\"What is open source? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/open-source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open source<\/a> <a title=\"What is operating system (OS)? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/operating-system-OS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operating system<\/a> like <a title=\"What is Linux operating system? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/Linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux<\/a>, any individual in this <em>&#8220;public collaboration&#8221;<\/em> can create software that can become part of the operating system or accessible to <a title=\"What is operating system (OS)? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/operating-system-OS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operating system<\/a> from sanctioned repositories &#8212; depending on the distribution. This way the operating system is owned and\/or controlled by a governing body (its creator, <a title=\"What is Linus Torvalds? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/Linus-Torvalds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linus Torvalds<\/a>) while it grows organically with help of its user base.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal level, I use <a title=\"What is Ubuntu? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/Ubuntu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ubuntu<\/a> &#8212; sponsored by Canonical Ltd., London, United Kingdom. I am much more comfortable using <a title=\"What is Linux operating system? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/Linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux<\/a> than <a title=\"What is Microsoft Windows? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com\/definition\/Windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a>. Therefore all I can say is <tt>root<\/tt> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is open source? &#8220;In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.&#8221; http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/definition\/open-source In the case of an open source operating system like Linux, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"send_to_group_blog":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-programming","category-cuny","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}