Republlished from Global Research TV
Essentially, open source software is software that allows users to inspect, change and share the source code of the program. Instead of passive consumers of a program, users become part of a community to which they can choose to contribute if they are capable and inclined. The difference from everyday consumer culture, where shoppers simply line up to buy products that are already in their final form, and it is almost never expected that shoppers will actually try to open up or modify those products.
Find out more about the open source idea and how it is transforming human interaction in this week's GRTV Backgrounder.
Editor's comment: All but a tiny minority of server computers on the Internet are driven by the open source Linux or BSD operating systems and not by expensive proprietary virus-prone software like Micro$oft Windows. The Apache web-server software and virtually all of the content-management software, such as Drupal, upon which candobetter is built, are also open source. - Ed
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