The Sand Dollar Legend. Described in The Legend of the Sand Dollar below, it's design by God ,the Creator, tells the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! This makes a wonderful Christian object lesson for kids of any age! One of my favorite activities as a child was finding sea shells at the beach. Although, I didn't live near a beach, my oldest sister did.
Linux is referred to as open-source precisely because it is. Open-source is the ability for anyone to view the code necessary to make the program. The Linux kernel, and most of the programs that are available for it, have their source code available, under a variety of licenses. Linux is referred to as open-source precisely because it is.
7 Comments. 1  Take from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software. Open source software (OSS) began as a marketing campaign for free software. 2  That is because the Linux Kernel is free and open source. That is why there are so many different distributions. The Kernel: http://www.kernel.org/. Unlike windows or os x, linuxâs actual source codes are open for modications to everybody. as for Windows and OSx, their source codes are compiled and cannot be decompiled, reverse engineer and/or modify.