Last year, we participated in ThinkQuest Competition with a Topic – Open Source
“Open source describes the principles and methodologies to promote open access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with either relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through either incremental individual effort, or collaboration.” – Wikipedia
To make the explanation clear, let us take an example: suppose there is a company ‘Centaur Music’. It creates cutting edge sound cards. Now, a global leader in the music industry, ‘Globo Musicals’ has started a new venture. They want to enter the lucrative DVD-player market. So, they enter into an agreement where Centaur will provide them the sound cards which they will use in their DVD-players. So this is how OEM companies function. Oh well, that was Wikipedia defining open source in its own way, now it is our turn. This site of ours is an effort to make people better understand, comprehend and know open source as well as they know their closest people.
To see our team’s website CLICK HERE
This year – the registration for ThinkQuest Competition is starting from August 15, 2007.
For more details – Visit http://www.thinkquest.org/