the.com/open source
software that shows its work, so anyone can fix, fork, or fight over it.
means a licensing model where source code is publicly viewable, modifiable, and redistributable, usually by anyone who wants to.
from coined in 1998 by a group including Eric Raymond, rebranding free software for corporate ears scared off by the word free sounding anti-profit.
linux kernelbuilt by thousands of strangers, runs most of the internet
free means freedomnot price, though it is usually both
github forksanyone can copy and improve your code legally
corporate paradoxmicrosoft now owns github, the irony machine