359 *TWITTER WILL BE DELISTED FROM THE NYSE ON FRIDAY AFTER MUSK COMPLETES DEAL..... Elon Made several declarations to go private & take the algorithm open source... (media.greatawakening.win) posted 2 years ago by purkiss80 2 years ago by purkiss80 +359 / -0 44 comments download share 44 comments share download save hide report block hide replies
Could anyone kindly explain (like I am 5!) what 'open source' actually means, especially what (if any) affect it has on users.
It means a copy of the code is publicly available so anyone can see how it works and even make their own twitter clone by making a few modifications. Instead of a black box, twitter would be a clear box.
Got it, and thank you! That was very helpful!
You’re welcome.
There are different flavors of open source.
Two major licenses are BSD (Berkely Software distribution and GPL General Public License)
BSD is easier to "lockup" new code as proprietary.
GPL encourages you to expand the free code base.
Apple is from BSD
Linux is from GPL