What is Software Piracy?

The Wikipedia Encyclopedia describes open source as "practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's sources." Before the label open source was coined, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept. In fact, earlier researchers used a process which is similar to open standards to develop telecommunication network protocols. Characterized by contemporary open source work, this collaborative process led to the birth of the Internet in 1969. Its application to software gained popularity with the emergence of the Internet. It is said that the open source label came out of a strategy session held at Palo Alto, California, in reaction to Netscape's announcement that it planned to release the source code for its browser Navigator.