Open source means making a product's sources publicly available, allowing others to modify and evolve the product, and contribute towards its development. The concept does not apply to software alone, rather a broad collection of fields associate with it. Simply put, the idea is that "given enough eyes, even the most elusive bugs can be easily removed".

Open source allows a project to be continuously nurtured by many different people, bringing varying thoughts into the mix. One person may add a feature that another may have overlooked. The end result is a product that appeals to a wide audience,simply because it was created by a wide developer base, and is born of a much broader viewpoint, than what could have been possible with a single corporate entity, that jealously guards its secrets.

Through this website we aim to showcase the various ways in which open source has allowed technology to progress, by removing commercial restraints from a product, and letting people try ideas that would not have otherwise been commercially feasible.

While the term open source encompasses a huge variety of fields, we will focus on the open source software models. The matter on this website has been divided into three sections. The first section deals with the open sorce definition, the philosophy behind open source and a comparision of open source software to closed source software. The second section deals with the history of open source. The third section deals with some individual open source projects and their histories, for added measure.

The history of open source is widely distributed over the internet. There exist hardly any official documentations that cover all aspects. Even the most in-detail accounts have something missing. Here we have tried our best to piece up the story to include all aspects and yet keep it simple and easy.

We invite you to explore this website for all it has to offer, and learn about the history of a revolution in technology. The future holds a lot of promise for open source, as Linus Torvalds says:

"the future is open source everything."