Open Source History : The Current Scenerio

During the 1990s, many open source projects have produced a good quantity of useful and high-quality software which are in use the world over. Some of them are Apache (the most widely used server today), Perl (an interpreted programming language with lots of libraries), XFree86 (the most widely used X11 implementation for PC-based machines), GNOME and KDE (both providing a consistent set of libraries and applications to present the casual and non-tech savvy user with an easy to use and friendly desktop environment and interface), Mozilla (the free software project funded by Netscape to build a WWW browser), etc.

Of these projects, GNOME and KDE are especially important, because they address usability by the common people, with no extra or special knowledge about the working of computer systems. The software being produced by these projects dispels the common myth that open source software is mainly focused on server and developer-oriented systems. In fact, both projects are currently producing lots of desktop personal productivity applications.

Java, in history is the largest body of code to be open sourced. Licensed under the BSD, Java was official made open in December 2006. Java for the first time became even more flexible that too at the cross-platform scale.

In 1998, Netscape released much of its code for its Netscape Navigator and Application Suite to Mozilla Corporation. After this, many successful Open Source Application suites released from Mozilla’s stable such as Sea Monkey, Camino, and its flagship products namely Firefox and Thunderbird.

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Communication

In the super-fast paced world of today, something which is not ‘instant’ is as good as a rock. And above all, we need instant communication. For communication over the internet, we have e-mails and Instant Messengers or IM’s as we call them. Most of the IM’s belong to the line of CSS such as MSN and Yahoo! The developers of these systems do not disclose their source codes. Read More

Education

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References

http://www.netc.org/openoptions/background/history.html#OSI
http://www.openz.org/oshistory.php
http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg019844.html
http://eu.conecta.it/paper/brief_history_open_source.html

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