Open Source marks its 10th year today as a movement, a cause and an ideal.

Open Source is:

is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

Sounds Greek?

Some say its a world beyond and larger than Microsoft. Others say it is more than that.

Look at this. This is a sampling of what Open Source is, and what it could bring us computer users and the general public.

Try some and join the community make a new world!

Hurrah also to the Computer Professionals Union, an exponent of Open Source in the Philippines.