Health.Zone Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the Health.Zone Content Network

2. Open-source software - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 September 2024. Software licensed to ensure source code usage rights Open-source software shares similarities with free software and is part of the broader term free and open-source software. For broader coverage of this topic, see Open-source-software movement. It has been suggested that this article ...

3. Open source - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

   The open source model is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A main principle of open source software development is peer production , with products such as source code, blueprints , and documentation freely available to the public.

4. Open-source software development - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software...

   Open-source software development. Open-source software development (OSSD) is the process by which open-source software, or similar software whose source code is publicly available, is developed by an open-source software project. These are software products available with its source code under an open-source license to study, change, and ...

5. Business models for open-source software - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open...

   Open-source software can also be commercialized from selling services, such as training, technical support, or consulting, rather than the software itself. [5] [6]Another possibility is offering open-source software in source code form only, while providing executable binaries to paying customers only, offering the commercial service of compiling and packaging of the software.

6. Comparison of open-source and closed-source software

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source...

   A license, whether providing open-source code or not, that does not stipulate the "four software freedoms", [3] are not considered "free" by the free software movement. A closed source license is one that limits only the availability of the source code. By contrast a copyleft license claims to protect the "four software freedoms" by explicitly ...

7. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

   "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...

8. History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open...

   The history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees. At the time, source code —the human-readable form of software—was generally ...

9. FreeCAD - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD

   FreeCAD is a general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design (CAD) modeler and a building information modeling (BIM) software application with finite element method (FEM) support. [2] It is intended for mechanical engineering product design but also expands to a wider range of uses around engineering, such as architecture or electrical ...