A group of young British explorers are to use a satellite mapping system on their month-long trip to the Himalayas. The 38 students, aged 16-20, are...
Open source technology is simply an evolved class of licensing under which wider, more permissive rights are given to users. Crucially, access to source code is given enabling user support and development of the code. While the open source philosophy originated in California, with frankly a long-haired approach, the model is now effectively mainstream and competes with conventional closed source licensing models (the 2008 Sun/MySQL and Symbian deals demonstrate the popularity of open source).