Bahiyyudin Ansari
Com/150
07/18/2010
Karen Walsh
Open Souce an Expository Essay Open source programming brings many benefits to the computer industry by lowering cost, allowing the user to gain better accessibility, and providing long-term use. Without open source users would not have many advantages of making changes to improve software. Organizations that use open source can excel within their own industries by using tools tailored to fit their business needs. The need for open source development has been a argument established over many years of technological advancement. I will attempt to chronicle those developments to show what the key steps taken to reach the results open source users have today.
All About Open Source Programming Open source programming has provided the computing community an economical and flexible option to private software's with open development dialogue open source has transformed computing for the better. Open source development always has not been a part of personal computing. Open source has become a tool used more frequently as development tools and community contributors have become increasingly available. Moreno Muffatto, writes in Open Source: A Multidisciplinary Approach, that Ken Thompson and his team at Bell Labs a subsidiary of AT&T, introduced Unix as a multi-platform operating system that could be used as a universal development platform for any machine or computer it was applied too. Open source became a term used to describe Unix and other counterparts when closed source applications became relevant in personal computers. Microsoft the premier operating system manufacturer with Windows being their disk operating system (DOS) based graphic user interface (GUI). Microsoft chose to avoid revealing the kernel used to design and implement programs in their environment without users first paying licensing fees. This distinction of paid developed kernel versus open kernel