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Time & again it's OS The final core essence of Open Source is that has lead of opportunity. Open Source software and development is all about participating in the open source community. As awareness of open source software grows, and as open source usage becomes a more common part of everyday software development, more and more individuals and organizations wonder how they can get involved with the open source community. Participating in the open source community, to me, is to each new plateau provide feedback and bug fixes to open source projects. In many cases, these thanks are the only payment they receive for their efforts. If you discover and/or fix a bug in tech & thinking" -the product, you can benefit the entire community by sharing your discovery or patch with the product developers. These opportunities enhance intellectual growth and provide information and knowledge beneficial towards everyone who is involved in the community. The Open Source world is an open community and the fact that anyone can assist and contribute is a fascinating aspect. Understanding the issues and opportunities inherent in open source is the first step in using it effectively to deliver maximum value towards one’s project and community.
→My Personal Views on Open Source
'''Innovation''':
Open Source software has many great characteristics: it’s inexpensive, shared, and creates alternatives to the vast world of proprietary software. Open Source software is also innovative, far more innovative than any commercial software company.
An area shrouded with complete innovation is that of Sun Microsystems Java. As one may recall, Sun built the entire Java Community Process and Community Source Model to provide some of the advantages of Open Source without what Sun considered as the disadvantage – that there wasn’t a strong property model. If one were to look at Java’s projects today, one would see a list of innovative Open Source projects like Hibernate and Struts.
One would also see innovation in the area of web browsers. Mozilla Firefox created and popularized many of the features that perhaps other companies, even Microsoft may duplicate in their next release. One mustn’t forget that Apache still dominates the internet server market.
As well, one might recall how Linux leads operating system development, no other OS runs on watches and supercomputers.
One might reminisce about how it was not feasible to create the web without Open Source, even though proprietary software producers attempted (Ted Nelson & Xanadu).
Open Source is taking over the creative lead in a lot of technologies. The purpose of intellectual property law is to promote innovation, yet, tight control is the only model it knows. I believe that since there now exists another way to innovate, intellectual property law will require change.
'''Opportunity''':
