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Open Source: A method and philosophy for software licensing and distribution designed to encourage use or improvement of software ensuring that anyone can copy the source code and modify it freely.[|open source licenses]

Open source has its pros and cons. It's a good to have because it helps business to acheive greater penetration for the market. Business's can also gain competitive advantage. It's also a good way to promote a company's image. Open Source's can also be bad because they allows hackers to know what the weakness's and disadvantages of a software are more easily. Its also hard to design a commercially sound business through an open source.

Examples of open sources are Mozilla Firefox and Moodle.[|Open source]

Mozilla Firefox is a free Open Source managed by Mozilla Corporation. It's the one site that can challenge Internet Explorer's popularity. It's recommended by many web designers and is also one of the most safest. It also has many customizable features, which allows the user to make it more suitable for them. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. [|Mozilla Firefox] Moodle is a Course Management System(CMS) that allows users to It's used to help educators create online courses.[|Moodle] [|Open Source] (sources Used)
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