Management and Organizational Studies 2276A/B : Open Sourcing.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2276A/B
• Professor: Frederick King

Document Summary

Open source the source code is freely available, can"t distribute open source software without making the code freely available: requirements: Must give away the license you can charge for the work done, but you can"t charge a license fee (can"t charge for sharing it with anyone else) Must distribute the source code gives everyone the right and ability to change the code if they want to. Can"t restrict the ability to modify open source software. Cant discriminate against people, groups or fields of endeavor (can"t say it can"t be used for business purposes or commercial purposes) Must be technology central: the idea is that it will benefit the world through better, more productive, feature rich software that is free. Advantages: rather than have people work in secret on competitive goals, people will work in public to achieve a common goal, people all over the world are working on it at the same time.