open source software – Magic Elements Studios Pvt Ltd https://magicelementsstudios.com Empower your Communication with our Innovative Solutions for Desired RESULTS! Sat, 09 Mar 2013 04:25:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://magicelementsstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-Magic-elements-logo_website-32x32.png open source software – Magic Elements Studios Pvt Ltd https://magicelementsstudios.com 32 32 FOSS ? Free and Open Source Software https://magicelementsstudios.com/open-source-software/ https://magicelementsstudios.com/open-source-software/#respond Sat, 09 Mar 2013 04:25:07 +0000 http://blog.magicelementsstudios.com/?p=121 […]]]> Basically Free and Open Source Software are software that you can download and use for Free. And if you happen to be a Software Programmer, you are in for a treat. As you can “open” the program and modify it as you want. Being an open source software, the guys/institution that provides it also gives the source code. Which is like a key to unlock the program, in order to upgrade, modify, or simply fix a few bugs.

If its free then how can anyone earn from creating it?

Many of programmers out there do it just to express their support. But there are a few ways to earn though if not many. One of them is through support of ads, Google, Facebook are good examples of that.

A bit of history:
Richard Stallman began the idea of FOSS back in the early 1980s.

In India, the Kerala state government has shown their support for FOSS. It first-ever free software conference in India, “Freedom First!”, held in July 2001 in Trivandrum. Where Richard Stallman inaugurated the Free Software Foundation of India.

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