Open source software - Essential Guide
Free and open source software is seeing steady adoption among small to large UK businesses, as they begin to take it to the heart of their organisations for key enterprise applications in a bid to lower IT costs.
Good enterprise-class open source support and services have also helped to drive adoption, as much as the fact that free and open source (FOSS) software products are continually maturing and improving both on the server and the desktop.
Free and open source software, termed F/OSS, FOSS, or FLOSS (free/libre/open source software), is software that is licensed liberally to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code – hence the ‘open source’ moniker.
