History of Open Source Collaboration

The term open source refers to a software development strategy in which the source code is made available to a community. This way everyone can make changes and improvements to the software. An example of the success of this strategy is the globally established computer operating system LINUX, which was created, and is still constantly updated, by contributions from all over the world.

Wikipedia is another famous example of open source culture. It has over 75,000 contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in over 250 languages.

The open source approach to collaboration enables people from all over the planet to engage and create together. Since projects aren’t managed from the top-down, participants can explore all sorts of different collaborative ventures.