[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Imagine Microsoft releasing the software coding of Windows and
Office to the general public for anybody to see and modify. It may
sound like chaos to Microsoft and all closed source businesses
alike, but the future may very well hold a corporate marketplace
that isn’t afraid to share.“Open-source is the emerging movement of software that is not
kept wrapped up and secret, but rather exposed for anyone to
inspect and modify. The movement’s core ideal is that with the
software source open to anyone, the program can evolve faster and
better than a company who only has a select number of employees to
work on a product…”