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Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-Lee

Meaning of "open source" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OPEN SOURCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPEN SOURCE

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Open 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 OPEN SOURCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Open source

In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. Researchers view open source as a specific case of the greater pattern of Open Collaboration, "any system of innovation or production that relies on goal-oriented yet loosely coordinated participants, who interact to create a product (or service) of economic value, which they make available to contributors and non-contributors alike". Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open-source software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.

Definition of open source in the English dictionary

The definition of open source in the dictionary is intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is made freely available to the general public by its creators.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OPEN SOURCE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE OPEN SOURCE

at source
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point source
radio source
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Synonyms and antonyms of open source in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «open source» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OPEN SOURCE

Find out the translation of open source to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of open 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 «open source» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

开源
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de código abierto
570 millions of speakers

English

open source
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खुला स्रोत
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

المصدر المفتوح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

с открытым исходным кодом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

open source
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খুলুন খুলুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

open source
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Slaid terbuka
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Open-Source-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オープンソース
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오픈 소스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbukak slith
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

mã nguồn mở
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெதுவாக திறக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ओठ उघडा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Açık kap
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

open source
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

open source
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

з відкритим вихідним кодом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

open source
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ανοικτού κώδικα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

open source
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

öppen källkod
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

åpen kildekode
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of open source

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OPEN SOURCE»

The term «open source» is very widely used and occupies the 9.149 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OPEN SOURCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «open source» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «open source» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «OPEN SOURCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word open source.
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Anant Agarwal
EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.
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Mitchell Baker
The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us.
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Mitchell Baker
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
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Brian Behlendorf
Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.
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Brian Behlendorf
I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.
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Brian Behlendorf
Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.
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Brian Behlendorf
In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
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Peter Fenton
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.
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Thomas Friedman
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPEN SOURCE»

Discover the use of open source in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to open source and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free ...
Not just for developers who are considering starting their own free software project, this book will also help those who want to participate in the process at any level.
Karl Fogel, 2005
2
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom And Intellectual ...
Covers the legal implications of open source and free software licensing and the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing.
Lawrence E. Rosen, 2005
3
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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Open Source: Technology and Policy
The movement has had widespread impact on education and government, as well as historic cultural and commercial repercussions. Part I discusses key open source applications, platforms, and technologies used in open development.
Fadi P. Deek, James A. M. McHugh, 2007
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The Success of Open Source
Explaining Open Source: Macro-Organization 7. Business Models and the Law 8. The Code That Changed the World? Notes Index Reviews of this book: In the world of open-source software, true believers can be a fervent bunch.
Steve WEBER, Steve Weber, 2009
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Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools: Using Open Source ...
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools is the definitive book on investigating and analyzing computer systems and media using open source tools.
Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, 2011
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Succeeding with Open Source
A guide to using open source software covers such topics as assessing open source business models, selecting open source software, and locating technical support.
Bernard Golden, 2005
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Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective
In this indispensable book, Diomidis Spinellis uses more than 600 real-world examples to show you how to identify good (and bad) code: how to read it, what to look for, and how to use this knowledge to improve your own code.
Diomidis Spinellis, 2003
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Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective
Complete files for the open source code illustrated in this book are available online at: http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/
Diomidis Spinellis, 2006
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Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
With this insightful book, intermediate to experienced programmers interested in data analysis will learn techniques for working with data in a business environment.
Philipp K. Janert, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPEN SOURCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term open source is used in the context of the following news items.
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IFTTT joins the open source community
Harnessing the power of apps, devices, and the cloud, IFTTT has just unveiled five open source projects. Now available on GitHub, the projects ... «BetaNews, Jul 15»
2
How to ruin an open source project
There are lots of ways to kill an open source project, and there's plenty of blame to go around. Both project maintainers and users are culpable, ... «Java World, Jul 15»
3
Getting friendly with open source: Big Data firm liberates proprietary …
Enterprise customers could consider open source as the solution to their problems. According to Anand Venugopal, Impetus' head of real-time ... «SiliconANGLE, Jul 15»
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Founder of GNU bestows blessing upon open hardware-focused …
Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project known by many in the open source worlds as rms, is not ... «Ars Technica, Jul 15»
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Open source, adaptable infrastructure key to Etsy platform business …
Etsy Inc., the vast exchange for handcrafted and vintage items, relies on open source technology and a high-tempo software release schedule to support its ... «TechTarget, Jul 15»
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Open Source Core Advances
A recent Berkeley workshop highlighted advances with RISC-V, an open source core already showing architectural advantages over ... «EE Times, Jul 15»
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SketchUp's Open-Source 3D-Printable WikiHouse Snaps Together …
The WikiHouse Open Source Construction Kit can be downloaded by anyone interested in building a house. What distinguishes it from the ... «World-Wire, Jul 15»
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The Huawei Way: Chinese Telco Ignites Open Source Spark
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has for some time now expanded its horizons beyond the physical manufacturing of networking ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
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A quiz to gauge your commitment to open source
At OSCON this year, Jared Smith of Bluehost spoke about how our companies can become good open source citizens. At ByWater Solutions ... «opensource.com, Jul 15»
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation, space listening, and more …
In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new Cloud Native Computing Foundation from the Linux ... «opensource.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Open source [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/open-source>. May 2024 ».
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