i) Open source platform definition
A social media platform created and developed by an online community of developers that
members can build on and change for their specific purposes. Open source software is usually
developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.
(ii) Advantages of open source platform
- Availability of source code where everybody has the right to modify. This means the
code can be implemented in other pieces of software and adapted to changing
environments. This enables the unlimited tuning and improvement of a software
product. It also makes it possible to port the code to new hardware, to adapt it to
changing conditions, and to reach a detailed understanding of how the system works.
- Many people have access to the code and this means that there are a large number of
sources for support.
- It is completely free i.e. it is free to use, free to distribute, and free to modify. To the
general public this means that they do not have to pay anything for the product.
- The right to redistribute modifications and improvements to the code, and to reuse other
open source code, permits all the advantages due to the modifiability of the software to
be shared by large communities. This is usually the point that differentiates open source
software licences from "nearly free" ones.
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