APPLICATION OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

This research paper focuses on the importance and application of using an open source software in different branches of Science and Engineering like Medicine, Technology, Defence and Military purposes, Aviation, Construction of huge buildings and Monuments, Signal and Image Processing Applications, Education and even in our day to day life. In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open-source software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.