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Open Source Organisations.

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Some of the "more prominent organizations" involved in OSS development include the Apache Software Foundation, creators of the Apache web server; the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit which as of 2012 employed Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system kernel; the Eclipse Foundation, home of the Eclipse software development platform; the Debian Project, creators of the influential Debian GNU/Linux distribution; the Mozilla Foundation, home of the Firefox web browser; and OW2, European-born community developing open source middle ware. New organizations tend to have a more sophisticated governance model and their membership is often formed by legal entity members. Open Source Software Institute is a membership-based, non-profit (501 (c)(6)) organization established in 2001 that promotes the development and implementation of open source software solutions within US Federal, state and local government agencies. OSSI's efforts have focused on promoting adoption o...
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What is Open Source?

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What is Open source???  Let's say you are a programmer, Alright. And you have created a tool which is very helpful for other programmers, you celebrate your success but you are in dilemma what to do about the  future like: How will the tool reach the people?? How will it be supported and improved over time?  One Popular option is keeping the recipe private making it commercial product and competing with others tool makers. Here you stay in control of tool and have an potential of making business around it. When a tool like software is under control of a company or an individual and the source code is private it is called Closed Source or Proprietary Software . In most cases the holder puts restrictions on the tools use. Keeps the source Code Secret and MAY maintain and support the source code.  This can work very well but it also comes with risks like if you are not able to make profit it maybe difficult to support and maintain the product. Another...
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