Open source software development is the process by which open source software (or similar software whose source code is publicly available) is developed. These are software products “available with its source code and under an open source license to study, change, and improve its design”. Examples of popular open source software products are Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, Android and the Apache OpenOffice Suite. In the past, the open source software development method has been very unstructured, because no clear development tools, phases, etc., had been defined like with development methods such as Dynamic Systems Development Method. Instead, every project had its own phases. However, more recently there has been much better progress, coordination, and communication within the open source community.
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