Open+Source

**Open Source**

 * Open-source software ** (**OSS**) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software. Open source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open content movements. A report by Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60billion per year to consumers.

