A conversation that seems to crop up on a fairly regular basis is one that I am sure most of you are familiar with. It goes along the lines of...
Open source has been with us for much longer than most people would think. It has been a fundamental part of the Internet since its inception running up to the 1990s. Indeed the very first web browsers and servers were freely available to download, use and experiment with before the Internet had broken out of military and academic fields. So what is Open Source exactly?