Open source software
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Open Source Software is software with accessible source code. Quite often the term Open Source describes also software which is free of charge, but this is not a must. This kind of software is considered as very welltested and stable, cause everybody can identify and fix bugs. In most cases several developer are working on one or more projects, sometimes even more. An Open Source project can be tested and used by thousands of users, for example the Apache HTTP Server is beeing used for the most webservers worldwide.
Serveral Organization support the Open Source Community and give them infrastructure and sometimes support in law.