Open Source

Open Source is changing the world ! Yes indeed it is.

The term “open source” refers to something that can be modified because its design is publicly accessible. This means not only programming, but also documentation, theme design, art work, or architectural design.

Making it more simple to understand, If there is code developed and you wish to change the coding and add some new features to that ,Then you need to get the access to the code . The access to the code can be granted by the developer himself and once you are granted the permissions you can modify the code and present it . This is how open-source works in a way . It renders you the right to modify the code and make it work the way you like it to be .

Talking about the open source community, If you present the modified code to the developer community , then the developer community may come up with more idea due to that .This will help work in a better and efficient way without discarding the ideas of any person who is into it. This way the whole community with and publicly accessible freedom to modify works .

Open source is everywhere and is used by everyone on daily basis . Even the website you are viewing now is based on an open-source tool and a content management system (CMS). The popular Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) software, MySQL is also open-source,Java and Wikipedia are the two most used software/website are also based on open-source . Some operating systems like Linux and Ubuntu which allow us to make modifications in a way and hence are open-sources.Even the Android is an open-source.

This video will make the understanding more better –

http://www.sourceforge.net – SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage free and open-source software development. It was the first to offer this service for free to open-source projects.

So if you wanna contribute towards the high rising community of Open-source you can do it via the sourceforge by finding the right place to contribute .

If you are a programmer then you can contribute towards this community by clicking on the following links-

1. Mozilla Developer Network – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

2.Android Open Source Project – https://source.android.com/

Here are some of the popular Open Source softwares by List :

Antivirus

Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
Avira- http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
BitDefender – http://www.bitdefender.com

Audio Players

Foobar 2000 – http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic – http://www.jetaudio.com/
Winamp – http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Tools

Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AudioShell – http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm

Compression/Decompression

7-zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 – http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
FilZip – http://www.filzip.com/