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Schneider, Karen – School Library Journal, 2008
Open source software has become a catchword in libraryland. Yet many remain unclear about open source's benefits--or even what it is. So what is open source software (OSS)? It's software that is free in every sense of the word: free to download, free to use, and free to view or modify. Most OSS is distributed on the Web and one doesn't need to…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Internet, Libraries, Online Catalogs