Before reading this article: http://www.computerlanguage.com/2020.pdf, I had no idea what "Opensource" meant. It is software that is open to everyone. Anyone can go and use it, and contribute when he feels like it. People are working voluntarily and are doing good for society.
In order to better understand what it is, I googled it! While reading on it, a question popped up "What is the difference between opensource software and free software?" I google it again and found a great line by Richard Stallman (I also googled him and according to Wikipedia he is "an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer; founder of the Free Software Foundation"), who says the following: "free software is free as in speech, not as in beer." So, as I understand the word "free" in this term means both "zero cost" and "freedom". I still have lots to figure out and google... Oh, by the way, google is built on open source...
For my Computer Applications class, I used KompoZer to create my web folio, Blogger to blog and phpBB3 to communicate with my future colleagues. All this software is amazing and free of charge! I am impressed! Way to go!
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