OPEN SOURCE
The Open Source Initiative is a great database of free programs for everyone to use freely. The basic idea of Open Source is to freely give a product with similar chacracteristics to others which centralized companies make.
Open Source includes a variety of programs and software, such as Free BSD and Linux, which are operating systems, Tomcat Web Server and Apache, which are web servers, and Mozzila Firefox, a web browser. Apart from these, the most widely spread one is Open Office, which is very much like Office but without having to pay. Even a web page we all know and use, Wikipedia, is run by Mediawiki, an Open Source web server. And Moodle, a platform for course managing, which is now widely used, is, in its base, an Open Source program.
Open Source goes much beyond what we think. There are Open Source programs for finances, such as "Mifos", for 3-D modelling, for statistics, microscope image processing, geography, video editing ("Cinelerra"), flash animation, firewall and even enkryptioning programs, such as "Seahorse"!
However, the Open Source idea has existed long before technology, in agriculture, markets and health and medicines.
It is very clear that today, Open Source programs and software are a very good alternative to the traditional, costworthy applications which have a very similar quality to the Open Source ones.
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