Who opened Open Source?

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Will KaynesIn a general sense open source means something is free to use by anyone regardless of whether it is a physical product or something downloadable. As a philosophy, open source” is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the production and design process for various goods or products.The expression itself originated from the fact that software is free and has an open source code. This kind of software has become available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions, which has allowed the creation of user-generated software content through incremental individual efforts.In some ways the open source philosophy and approach is similar to brainstorming, when the best variation can be chosen from many. As a source it is open to anyone. Anyone can modify it over and over again and eventually the best possibility is discovered, and then improved again and again. In our case the open source e-Commerce engines were produced by a group of people who call themselves Chain Reaction E-commerce” and called it CRE Loaded. (Of course there are many more engines but this article is about only one of them.) After letting the genie out of the bottle CRE Loaded engines has been modified hundreds of times by thousands of designers who have made tens of thousands CRE Loaded templates out of a single source. Of course in some way this soft kind of an abuse is not always good as the results are sometimes unprofessional and may spoil the original advantages. In this case it is reasonable to work with the so-called publically licensed” companies that customize and modify the original variant. This public license” means that this company’s products are well recognized by audience, they have positive feedbacks at target forums and resources and the company in general is customer-oriented. Those things lead to successful branding and successful branding obliges businesses to have decent products.The open source theoretically means several development principles (according to the Bazaar model):Users should be treated as co-developers (The users are treated like co-developers and so they should have access to the source code of the software).Early Releases (The first version of the software should be released as early as possible so as to increase one’s chances of finding co-developers early).Frequent Integration (New code should be integrated as often as possible so as to avoid the overhead of fixing a large number of bugs at the end of the project life cycle).Several Versions (There should be at least two versions of the software. There should be a buggier version with more features and a more stable version with fewer features. The users can then act as co-developers, reporting bugs and providing bug fixes).High Modularization (The general structure of the software should be modular allowing for parallel development).Of course not all of those patterns are used while developing most of the software products but while designing CRE Loaded shopping cart most of those were enabled. Perhaps that is why CRELoaded technology as a whole and CRELoaded templates are so popular on the Internet today.

Will Kaynes is a CEO of a Brooklyn-based

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