{"id":24865,"date":"2014-07-16T03:40:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=24865"},"modified":"2014-07-16T03:40:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T07:40:45","slug":"open-source-software-what-is-free-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/open-source-software-what-is-free-open-source-software.php","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Software &#8211; What is Free Open Source Software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Definition: The source code for a software application    is basically the programming instructions for the software.    Most financial software has a source code that is not openly    shared for the purpose of competing for market share. When    software is considered to be open source, the source code is    available to anyone who wants to use or work with the software,    free of charge.    <\/p>\n<p>      Open source software is can be modified by anyone who      downloads the source, and is usually developed with a      collaboration of programmers and software users. This      collaboration includes testing the software to eliminate bugs      in the program code, a process with can cause the software to      quickly become more refined and user-friendly.    <\/p>\n<p>      Open source software is free to the general public and is      considered safe to use when the usual precautions are taken      (use antivirus software). The only drawback to open source      software may be a lack of formal technical support, although      most of this software has an online manual to use to learn to      use the software and a strong user community which freely      provides reliable support to those who have questions. Help      documentation is most often found in the software under the      Help section at the top of the screen or on the software      developer's web site.    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/financialsoft.about.com\/od\/glossaryindexo\/g\/OpenSrcSoftware.htm\" title=\"Open Source Software - What is Free Open Source Software?\">Open Source Software - What is Free Open Source Software?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Definition: The source code for a software application is basically the programming instructions for the software. Most financial software has a source code that is not openly shared for the purpose of competing for market share. When software is considered to be open source, the source code is available to anyone who wants to use or work with the software, free of charge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}