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+# <a name="Brief_summary"> Brief summary </a>
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+As stated by the Open Source Initiative on their home page:
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+"The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.
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+We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits."
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+-- <http://www.opensource.org/>
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+Unlike [[FreeSoftware]], [[OpenSource]] does not put as much emphasis into the issue as the [Free Software Foundation](http://www.fsf.org). Several open source licenses exist, including the traditional [[GeneralPublicLicense]], GPL.
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+In the spirit of keeping things short, please read up on the various licenses on their respective home pages.
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+-- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 11 May 2002