Open-source software (OSS) is a computer software with its code source made a vailable with a license in which the copyright holder provides the right to study , change and distribute the software to any one and for any purpose .open-source software is very often developed in a public ,collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open source development and often compared to ( technically defined) user generated content or legally defined open -contentmovement. Areport by the standish Group (from 2008) states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to cnsumers. The open source initiatives (OSI) definition is recognized as the standard or de facto definition.Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens formed the organization in February 1998.with about 20 years of evidence from case histories of closed and open development already provided by the internet ,OSI continued to present the open source case to commercial and businesses .They sought to bring a higher profile to the practical benefits of freely available source code, and wanted to bring major software businesses and other high-tech industries in to the open source
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