Full disclosure: I grew up in New York City when the drinking age was 18. Of course people were also being drafted at that age into the U.S. military and sent to Vietnam, so there was a certain logic in treating 18 as the official entry into adulthood. Like the New York of my youth, the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and QuÃ©bec, and 19 in the rest of Canada. The year in which a young person âturns legalâ can be a perilous one.
What is open source? The term open source refers to the availabilty of an application's source code to the general public. Open source licenses typically allow for anyone to work on a project or make works based on a project as long as those changes are provided back to the open source project with similar licensing terms. The Google backed Android OS is a well known example of open source in the cell phone industry.
A Definition of Open Source Open source technology is defined as the production and development philosophy of allowing end users and developers to not only see the source code of software, but modify it as well. The Linux operating system is a one of the best-known examples of open source software technology.