Open source software is software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Open source code evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers as well as very large companies. Examples of open-source software products are:
- GNU Project — “a sufficient body of free software”
- FreeBSD — operating system derived from Unix
- Apache — HTTP web server
- Tomcat web server — web container
- Drupal — content management system
- Eclipse — software development environment comprising an integrated development environment (IDE)
- Joomla — content management system
- Linux — operating system based on Unix
- Mediawiki — wiki server software, the software that runs Wikipedia
- MongoDB — document-oriented, non-relational database
- Moodle — course management system or virtual learning environment
- Mozilla Firefox — web browser
- Mozilla Thunderbird — e-mail client
- OpenBSD — operating system derived from Unix
- OpenOffice.org — office suite
- openSIS — open source Student Information System
- OpenSolaris — Unix Operating System from Sun Microsystems
- osCommerce — ecommerce
- PeaZip — File archiver
- PHP - Scripting language suited for the web
- Stockfish — chess engine series, considered to be one of the strongest chess programs of the world
- Symbian — real time mobile operating system
- TYPO3 — content management system
- WordPress — content management system — blog software
- 7-Zip — File archiver
- Many, many more
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