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Open Source As Culture / Culture As Open Source Summary

The definition for “open source” is describe by dictionary.com ” made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.”

Open Source Community:
https://opensource.org/community

Open source originate being a hobbyist activity. Individuals participate in open source at their free will, creating or inventing anything of their interest without restrictions. This opens up new doors of opportunities for creative outcomes. Peer production in open source provides individuals more opportunity for creativity, collaboration within the community, sharing knowledge and information, as well as to make improvements to existing source codes.

However in 1970s, the introduction of copyrighting , causing many restrictions to the open source community, especially the benefits of a open source culture provides. Sharing, learning, improvement to original content and creativity are restricted. For instance for a proprietary software, when a software is flawed, it can only be modified by authorized personnel, rather than a community of open source programmers.

What is Copyrighting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiq42O6rhW4

Visual and audio explanation of what is open vs closed source?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3rfp6JDzjk

As a respond to the limitation of copyrighting, many efforts are made to re-establish its benefits for open source. For example, Linux was build as an operating system with the inclusion of open source. Governments from Africa, Brazil and China adopt policies that encourages sharing and building. Web pages such as Wikipedia is opened for public to contribute information freely. There are many more software, products and services that value open source rather than copyrighting.

What is Linux?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsWQUOEL0N8

Create a Wikipedia Page (open source)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_k_VbCDm2Y