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#12 Open Source Software

Kopec Explains Software

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Open source is a term that refers to whether or not people have access to the source code behind the software they run. An open source piece of software, one programmer could create and when they distribute what they made, the next programmer who looks at it is going to be able to see what they wrote. Copac Explained Software: The podcast where we make computing intelligible.

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