Free Software term describes practices in production and development that promote access to the source code of software. Some consider Free Software a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology. Before the term Free Software became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; Free Software gained reputation with the rise of the Internet, a
nd the increasing need for massive utilization of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled many developers to build using many production models, helped growing new communication paths, and created interactive communities.
