Technically

Technically

What's open source?

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Justin
Mar 31, 2020
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The TL;DR

Open source technically means that an app’s code is publicly available, but more generally refers to the movement of communities of developers building transparent, open codebases free for everyone to use.

  • If an application is open source, its code is freely readable and usable

  • Many of the everyday basics that our applications use are open source…

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