You didn't mention the most important component of successful open source software: the GPL license. That is what keeps any company from copyrighting your software and then demanding payment from you to let you use your own software. If you invest your time on software that a company can take back at any time, you effectively are working for that company for free, and you will not be even allowed to use the software you wrote later. Open source software is a great resource to learn programming and coding, but without a GPL license most projects don't get that far. Sure, there is BSD and X11, paid for the US government in the form of college grants, but GNU and Linux got to be the stupendous projects they are because they use the GPL license. Without GPL, you are strictly working for somebody else for free, you don't get money and you don't get the end product either.
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ross.woodward7 years, 8 months ago
Great video! This honestly deserve more views
jamesstream976 years, 5 months ago
Big companies like Adobe hate Linux and open source ecosystem
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adán.cuellar4 years, 5 months ago
So if any person can work on it, what is stopping someone from imbedding malware in the program or just destroying it? What if someone tries to improve it, but makes it much worse or inoperable?
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ross.woodward7 years, 6 months ago
i always heard this term and assumed it meant what it was but wasn't 100% sure
steven.gonzalez7 years, 10 months ago
Very interesting video! We believe open-source is the best way to guarantee innovation, transparency & quality, and open-core is the best way to guarantee reliability.
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allenanderson4045 years, 8 months ago
I once very confused with free software and open source software. I actually once helped applying for open source license review for an open source project, ZenTao, but got rejected. Even more confused now.
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sergioserna5997 years, 1 month ago
PLEASE work on it. make videos on how can I make changes in open source projects. what skill should required to work on it
mariacecíliaalbuquerque4275 years, 2 months ago
Highly appreciated
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marcelladörschner4838 years ago
Thank you for making this video :)
francisca_gonzález6 years ago
Where an I find open source software? By the way, great video.
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lisaswift3137 years, 3 months ago
Thank you!
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hans-hinrichhendriks2644 years, 11 months ago
Just came across this, how can I learn
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nehaganesh9764 years, 1 month ago
Can someone tell it in long story short?
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josué_costela4 years, 10 months ago
That is a great explanation. Thank you.
micheal.turner5 years, 3 months ago
So open source has no license at all? Even the creator?
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hans-hinrichhendriks2644 years, 6 months ago
nice
utkarsh.kalita6 years ago
Thank you very much Mr. Riss.
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erick_pimenta4 years, 5 months ago
👍
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brunamacedo6332 years, 10 months ago
some are open source but only few know how it really works ! they dot tell it to others. so code is opensource internal logic is. closed source. some clever way to earn money by using name"open" LOL
You didn't mention the most important component of successful open source software: the GPL license. That is what keeps any company from copyrighting your software and then demanding payment from you to let you use your own software. If you invest your time on software that a company can take back at any time, you effectively are working for that company for free, and you will not be even allowed to use the software you wrote later. Open source software is a great resource to learn programming and coding, but without a GPL license most projects don't get that far. Sure, there is BSD and X11, paid for the US government in the form of college grants, but GNU and Linux got to be the stupendous projects they are because they use the GPL license. Without GPL, you are strictly working for somebody else for free, you don't get money and you don't get the end product either.
Great video! This honestly deserve more views
Big companies like Adobe hate Linux and open source ecosystem
So if any person can work on it, what is stopping someone from imbedding malware in the program or just destroying it? What if someone tries to improve it, but makes it much worse or inoperable?
i always heard this term and assumed it meant what it was but wasn't 100% sure
Very interesting video! We believe open-source is the best way to guarantee innovation, transparency & quality, and open-core is the best way to guarantee reliability.
I once very confused with free software and open source software. I actually once helped applying for open source license review for an open source project, ZenTao, but got rejected. Even more confused now.
PLEASE work on it. make videos on how can I make changes in open source projects. what skill should required to work on it
Highly appreciated
Thank you for making this video :)
Where an I find open source software? By the way, great video.
Thank you!
Just came across this, how can I learn
Can someone tell it in long story short?
That is a great explanation. Thank you.
So open source has no license at all? Even the creator?
nice
Thank you very much Mr. Riss.
👍
some are open source but only few know how it really works ! they dot tell it to others. so code is opensource internal logic is. closed source. some clever way to earn money by using name"open" LOL