FOSS Concept

People often ask me what is so special about Open Source software. I have always told them that Open Source is a type of software that can be freely modified by anyone with programming skills. The concept of putting the software under a public license keeps the fresh ideas and improvements coming. As a simple example, say you are reading a blog or post. As you are reading a section you come across a part that could be explained a little more efficiently. You then proceed to edit the post and add a more defined description of the point. Now lets say you have 1000's of eyes doing the same thing. Now we have just jumped from efficiently expressing a point to quality control. All people see things differently. Everyone has a unique perspective on what they see, so new ideas are never lacking. When you put all of those people together, the whole picture can become quite clear. Which in turn can offer a better insight to any project. A majority of the Open Source developers work on these projects in their spare time and for free. They are not motivated by money, so their work is untainted by commercial greed. This to me is a big reason for its popularity so far. The more we restrict software code, the most we stop innovation. This last line is a quote. For more information on Open Source please see Technorati