What is Open Source?

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1.What is Opensource?

Opensource, namely open data, is a collective movement about sharing, creating, and using. If you are interested and knowledgeable, you can reach how the data is used at the foundation of a working program, if you want, you can try to develop it, or if you want, you can benefit yourself for a similar application. In other words, open data means having the freedom to use a product owned by a large community(opensource community) as much as you want according to its purpose. This freedom given to third parties constitutes the general context of the philosophy of open data.

2.What is the starting point of Opensource and why is it important?

The idea of sharing health, administrative and positive sciences data has been influential in its emergence. It is believed that the various restrictions on this kind of data and being under protection block its sharing, and on the contrary, if it shared, it could be benefited. Later, with the near millennium age we are in, the reasons and frameworks have been widely discussed. As a result, these discussions brought along various conferences, academic papers. The importance of the open data is related to it being both accessible and developable. In a sense, increasing access triggers the increase in development and developmental activities occur under the guidance of access. The value of open data is in this philosophy. If we talk a little more about the benefits of open data at this point, it can be emphasized on the subjects of creating a wide participation potential, providing the opportunity for openness to development, supporting innovation and thus providing the potential to increase efficiency.

3.Opensource presence and potential

Open data is the trend of today's data age, it is the founding value of the culture of developing together. Even considerate transitions to open data on state data are in question. These rates are over 10 percent today. This daily increasing trend can be easily controlled with various organizations over the internet. If processed correctly, this data can provide a great research and development opportunity, and this opportunity can be interpreted for developments in the field of positive science. Also, this data can be reused or distributed over and over as needed, so the same data needs of different research are used saving time. It may also be possible to provide skills to work together culture with the advantage of producing common results and using different business connections in the same context. Structurally, its capacity to provide equal usage possibilities regardless of different conditions of different groups is potentially inclined to eliminate all commercial access agreements at its foundation.

4.Opensource Presence and Principles

Free and continuous access
Reuse and sharing
Being developable and innovation-oriented
Being inclusive and transparent
Currentness and processability
Standardization/Determination of norms

5.Comparison of Opensource and Closed Source

Closed source approaches, where you can't access, see or change the source codes of a product. A high majority of applications in today's data world provide service using the closed data approach, but there are also open data approach alternatives to these applications. For example, if you are looking for an open data source code application for your office programs needs, LibreOffice application will be a good alternative instead of closed code Microsoft Office. We can easily multiply these examples; for example, if you are looking for an open data example for your web browser instead of closed source Google Chrome which is passed as proprietary software. In that case, Firefox will easily do your job. Are you looking for a text editor? The open data alternative Notepad++, do you need a media player? What is VLC player for right? It is worth reserving the most crucial point for the operating system, I don't think that massive Linux and its derivatives should be passed with one sentence. I will discuss relatively more detailed at the end of our article.

6.How can I turn my product into open data?

Turning your product into open data has several steps, we can summarize these as follows:

Decide on the subheadings you are considering sharing source code and categorize your data with an open license, determine your own norms on usage rights and complete this process. After deciding the scope and licensing it and brooding over your norms, the process is complete. However, if you request, you can prefer a way like providing API to serve part of your product as open data.

7.One of the most successful examples of Opensource, Linux

I reserved this part of the article for perhaps the most successful example of open data, Linux. Linux is the best known and most used open data operating system base. Like other counterparts, it has a graphical interface and similar software is used. But Linux is very different by being open data, so its source codes that make it up can be viewed for free, according to the user's ability it can be editable and contributions can be made to the product. So Linux can get better and better with active participation. I think I hear you are saying, will this complexity occur, who is the owner of this operating system anyway? There are different variations of Linux-based operating system, some have formed different communities and serve different purposes but there is no exact ownership issue. With open data licensing, only the founders of the operating systems with Linux variations are known, and certain access rights are defined for users in communication with the Linux kernel. And this development is supported by the GNUphilosophy and maintained professionally by a certain non-profit organization. The name of it is Free Software Foundation which means free software foundation.

8.Companies supporting Opensource

For some of the companies that support open data, such a list can be prepared: