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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

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Many of us aren’t actually familiar with the term “FOSS” (also known as FLOSS , indicating Free Libre Open Source Software refers to the same thing), but are using some of them without actually knowing it .What is FOSS? As it is mentioned in the title, FOSS is the abbreviation for Free and Open Source Software . The Open part refers to its free license which grants anyone the rights to use as you wish or copy or distribute or modify the program the software without any costs. Then, what does the term Open Source mean? In FOSS, its source code is available to anyone, enabling the modification of it .And yes, anyone can modify the code and customize it to their wish or update it for their purpose. So in short, you have full access to a software and you can modify it as per your desire and redistribute your modified version— ALL FOR FREE most of the time .                              Even though its features look like they are from heaven, not many people are aware of FOSS and in