They can submit that edit back to the project website, with hopes that it will become a part of the product.
Why? It's a different method of software development called "open-source".īy releasing the source code, programmers everywhere will be able to download and edit the code at will. In 1998, Netscape released the source code of Netscape Communicator to the public. The source code of Netscape Communicator is called Mozilla. (Like having the recipe to McDonald's secret sauce, I would be able to make as much of it as I want, without going to McDonalds) If anyone gets their hands on the source code, they can duplicate and edit that software at will. It looks like gibberish, but when run through a compiler, out comes a software application. In the same way that food has a recipe, humans have DNA, and buildings have blueprints, software has source code. Understanding The Relationship And History Between Mozilla And Netscape What is "source code”?
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