In Information Technology, the term Opensource refers to every software released with a certain type of license that consequently imposes the release of what we call the “Source Code”, that is what is written by the programmers while developing a specific application.

In the last few years we experienced a big explosion of Opensource software on the market, for example let’s give a thought to popular programs like Firefox or OpenOffice suite. The reasons of this "boom" are to be found in the philosophy and in the community which are at the base of Opensource.

The advantages of Opensource software are therefore manifold, first of all, you get a code (and then the final program) of higher quality than the average of the so-called Closedsource software (that is the opposite), but above all you get remarkable freedom of circulation of technologies and information.

Each Opensource software can be totally modified and distributed by whoever has the skills and will of doing so, in this way every single line of the code is controlled by thousands of different eyes, so that the number of errors gets smaller every micro-revision.