The open source movement can be traced back as far as 1997, when Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The paper reflected upon the hacker community and free software principles. It received significant attention in 1998, and was a key driving factor behind the decision to release the Internet suite, Netscape Communicator, as free software. The source code went on to become the backbone of many search engines, including the widely used Mozilla Firefox.
Today, the broad reaching term primarily refers to computer software with underlying source code that is available for anybody to use or modify. The copyright holder typically provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.
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