Open sourceEdit

Open source software is software for which the access to the underlying source code is available to the public. There are many types of open source licenses, but the most well-known examples are actually free software licenses. Note that all free software licenses are open source, but not all open source licenses are free software licenses.

Examples of Wincent products that have been released as open source include:

• Wikitext (C extension for Ruby)
• WinSwitch (desktop application)
• Walrat (packrat parser generator)
• Walrus (command line tool)
• WOBezel (framework)
• WOHotKey (framework)
• askpass (command line tool)
• Clipper (command line tool)
• and various others which can be viewed at https://github.com/wincent

I’ve written about my motivations for supporting open source in the article, "Embracing open source".