MaGIC Academy: Open Source Technologies

Key Takeaways
- Understanding what is open source.
- Differences between various open source licenses.
- Generating revenue using various open source business models.
- Best practices in software development using open source. (eg. where to host your code repositories)
Background Information
Open source software are published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to re-use, modify and redistribute source code without paying royalties or fees. Open-source code evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers from separate continents, differing levels of skills, as well as from large companies. In the past, individuals who were involved in open-source projects have ended up establishing companies offering products or services incorporating open-source programs.
Open source software benefits programmers and non-programmers alike. In fact, because much of the Internet itself is built on many open source technologies like the Linux operating system and the Apache Web Server Application. Anyone using the Internet benefits from open source software. Every time an individal views webpages, check email, chat with friends, stream music online, or play multiplayer video games, their computers, mobile phones, or gaming consoles connect to a global network of computers that routes and transmits their data to the "local" devices they have in front of them.
Popular open-source software include: Linux, Apache HTTP Server, GNU Compiler Collection, Firefox, Thunderbird, MySQL, Python.
Useful References (and recommended readings)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy - Open Source Questions Answered
- Microsoft Virtual Academy - Embrace Open Source Technologies to Accelerate and Scale Solutions
- Microsoft Virtual Academy - Deploying Linux Vms on Microsoft Azure
- What is open source?
- 10 Reasons Open Source Is Good for Business
- Benefits of Using Open Source Software
- List of free and open-source software packages
- Top 10 open source projects of 2014
- The best open source software Awards (2014)
- Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
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