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Open Source Policy

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The Power of Open Source

Driving Innovation Through Collaboration and Evolution

All software is written with source code. What differentiates the open-source model from closed source is that the source code is made available for others to read and improve upon — so long as they, too, make their code available for others to improve upon — so long as they, too, make their code available… and so on and so forth.

The result is an environment in which an incomparable number and range of people are able to contribute ideas and features. The best innovations are taken up and re-circulated, again inviting improvement. This makes releases better with each iteration, and, with a global community of developers contributing, makes this happen faster.

In this way, open-source is to the internet as evolution is to organic life. Just as with evolution’s mechanism of natural selection, open-source software ensures the best possible solutions naturally rise to the fore.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their strengths and enduring connection to lands, waters and communities as the Custodians of the oldest continuing cultures on the planet.

We acknowledge the Jagera People and the Turrbal People as the Traditional Custodians of Meanjin (Brisbane), the lands on which we are based. We pay our respect to Jagera and Turrbal cultures, and to their Elders past, present and emerging.