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I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.
Brian Behlendorf

Meaning of "closed source" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CLOSED SOURCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLOSED SOURCE

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Closed source is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CLOSED SOURCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Proprietary software

Proprietary software or closed source software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder with the intent that the licensee is given the right to use the software only under certain conditions, and restricted from other uses, such as modification, sharing, studying, redistribution, or reverse engineering. Usually the source code of proprietary software is not made available. Complementary terms include free software, licensed by the owner under more permissive terms, and public domain software, which is not subject to copyright and can be used for any purpose. Proponents of free and open source software use proprietary or non-free to describe software that is not free or open source. A related but distinct categorization in the software industry is commercial software, which refers to software produced for sale but not necessarily closed source.

Definition of closed source in the English dictionary

The definition of closed source in the dictionary is intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLOSED SOURCE

closed book
closed chain
closed circuit
closed community
closed company
closed corporation
closed cycle
closed fracture
closed game
closed interval
closed primary
closed scholarship
closed season
closed sentence
closed set
closed shop
closed-captioned
closed-circuit television
closed-circuit television camera
closed-door

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLOSED SOURCE

at source
crowdsource
heat source
income source
insource
multisource
open source
outsource
point source
radio source
resource
source

Synonyms and antonyms of closed source in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «closed source» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLOSED SOURCE

Find out the translation of closed source to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of closed source from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «closed source» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

封闭源代码
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

código cerrado
570 millions of speakers

English

closed source
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बंद स्रोत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مصدر مغلق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

с закрытым исходным кодом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

código fechado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বন্ধ উৎস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

code source fermé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sumber tertutup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Closed-Source-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クローズドソース
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비공개 소스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ana sumber
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguồn đóng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூடிய மூல
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बंद स्त्रोत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kapalı kaynak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

closed source
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zamknięte źródło
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

із закритим вихідним кодом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sursă închisă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλειστού κώδικα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geslote bron
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sluten källa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lukket kildekode
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of closed source

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOSED SOURCE»

The term «closed source» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.266 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOSED SOURCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about closed source

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QUOTES WITH «CLOSED SOURCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word closed source.
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Brian Behlendorf
I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOSED SOURCE»

Discover the use of closed source in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to closed source and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Business Data Communications and Networking
OPEN SOURCE VERSUS CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARE permit an attacker to control your computer from anywhere! Trojans are more often concealed in other software that unsuspecting users download over the Internet (their name alludes  ...
Jerry FitzGerald, Alan Dennis, 2009
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source ...
The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book.
Eric S. Raymond, 2001
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Information Security: Principles and Practice
Now let's consider the security implications of open and closed source software from a slightly more theoretical angle. It can be shown that the probability of a security failure after t units of testing is about Klt, where K is a constant, and this ...
Mark Stamp, 2011
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Web Design & Development:
Software license Website W3C [12] EPL [13] Closed source [14] Closed source [ 15] Closed source [16] Closed source [17] Closed source [18] Closed source [19] Closed source [20] Adobe Acrobat License [21] Closed source [22] Closed ...
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2014
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Selling Choice: Combining Open And Closed Source Software To ...
Weighing the options can be time-consuming and confusing on your own, but with Selling Choice: Combining Open and Closed Source Software to Maximize Customer Value and the expert help of Novell's Chris Stone, you will quickly begin to see ...
Chris Stone, 2005
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The Open Source Handbook
The long delay in finding the programming issues in both of these well-known and highly used open source projects provide fodder for closed source developers to argue that open source is less secure than the traditional software  ...
Michael R. Overly, 2003
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Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications
Mature open source software solutions have expanded the number of acquisition choices available to the organization beyond traditional closed source ( commercial or proprietary) software solutions. As a result, there now exists the possibility ...
Brian N. Hilton, 2007
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Information Security Management Handbook, Fifth Edition
commercial closed source software companies, with enough additional money to fund think tanks. On the other side, we have the image of the ragtag open source zealots, with focus and drive rarely seen in the software industry. Although ...
Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, 2003
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Concise Ict Fundamentals Volume One
What is the fundamental difference between open source and closed source software? A. Open source has unrestricted usage, whereas closed source does not B. Closed source has unrestricted usage, just like open source C. Close source ...
Bright Siaw Afriyie, 2012
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Information Security Management Handbook, Sixth Edition
Getting to the heart of the matter, there really is no such thing as absolutely closed source software. Even when a vendor works diligently to protect source code, hundreds or even thousands of eyes are picking through that code every day.
Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLOSED SOURCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term closed source is used in the context of the following news items.
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Leaked render shows BlackBerry Venice slider with Android
Is there no bloatware on nokia (symbian), windows or ios phones? all of them are closed source! I let you alone with your beloved N8 and BB ... «GSMArena.com, Jul 15»
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Next Cyanogen phone canceled, MediaTek probably to blame
This version of Android is based on the open source CyanogenMod ROM, but comes with additional closed source features and is distributed ... «ExtremeTech, Jul 15»
3
Indian Startup Bluemeric launches goPaddle - a container based …
goPaddle is available as a closed source SaaS application and is currently in public beta. It is available to customers as a free subscription with ... «The Hans India, Jul 15»
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Feefo hires Frank PR for UK brief
Feefo has and always will be a closed source platform." Graham Goodkind, chairman and founder of Frank PR, said Frank had signed up to ... «PR Week, Jul 15»
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DDN Crosses Wolfcreek From HPC To The Enterprise
Or, even for closed source software, DDN adds value by making IBM's GPFS file system easier to install and maintain. “The big shift this year, ... «The Platform, Jun 15»
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StackEngine's Boyd Hemphill: How Docker is Changing DevOps
Hemphill: Our product is currently closed source. We just look at that as a wise business decision at this point. Right now we think the right ... «Linux.com, Jun 15»
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The genius of Google Play Services
It's a curse because they're closed source - making it impossible to dig into the code. They make your device less your device, and that's always ... «OS News, Jun 15»
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Why Harvard and Others Must be Allowed Into India
... well-represented in our Parliament, who have made the higher education sector their chasse gardee, a closed source of largely illicit revenue ... «Kashmir Images, Jun 15»
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Sony announces support for Android M developer preview on select …
Because this is Android M from AOSP, it doesn't have any of the closed source components you're used to seeing in Android. There's no Gmail ... «ExtremeTech, Jun 15»
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The UX of open source content management
Closed source systems can stave off this sea change by continuing to count on limited use cases and required training programs. But open ... «opensource.com, Jun 15»

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