Introduction There has been an increase in interest in open source software (OSS) development in recent years. Interest in this process, which involves software developers in many different places and organizations sharing code to develop and refine software programs. You may be wondering what Open Source Software (OSS) is. Open source software is computer software whose source code is made available and licensed under a license in which the copyright holder provides the right to study, modify, and distribute the software to anyone for any purpose. Open source software is usually developed in a public and collaborative manner. Source code is the part of software that most computer users never see; is code that computer programmers can use to change how software works. Programmers who have access to a computer program's source code can improve it by adding features or fixing parts that don't always work correctly. A Brief History of Open Source Software There is a tradition of sharing and cooperation in software development. But in the rec...