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A general trend when it comes to choice of technology is that more and more people choose to build on open source, as costs can be kept down and it’s easy to get programmers who can work in basic open source environments. Open source aims to open the source code of the programs that are developed so that others can use it and further develop and customize solutions on top of existing code without paying licensing fees. The payment is often made by using what was developed and sharing it back into the open system and thus the open source environments become more developed. The opposite of open source is proprietary software owned by a company, where users’ rights are limited, often through copyright and patents. Examples of open source projects are the WordPress publishing tool, the MySQL database and the office software OpenOffice.
