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Main Author: Schneider, Karen
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ807498
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  • Free for All: Open Source Software Schneider, Karen Computer Software Internet Libraries Online Catalogs Library Automation Open source software has become a catchword in libraryland. Yet many remain unclear about open source's benefits--or even what it is. So what is open source software (OSS)? It's software that is free in every sense of the word: free to download, free to use, and free to view or modify. Most OSS is distributed on the Web and one doesn't need to sign a license agreement to use it.