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Also in 1998, critics attacked the term "open source" citing that it fosters an ambiguity of a different kind; that it confuses the mere availability of the source with the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute it.
The philosophy associated with the term "open source" emphasizes collaborative development, and thus it differs from the philosophy of "free software". Some who write about the community that includes both these philosophies' supporters use the terms Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) or Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS), as a way to refer to this community and its software without taking a side between the two philosophies or their associated criteria.
MarketsSoftware is not the only field affected by open source; many fields of study and social and political views have been affected by the growth of the concept of open source. Advocates in one field will often support the expansion of open source in other fields, including Linus Torvalds who is quoted as saying, "the future is open source everything."
The open source movement has been the inspiration for increased transparency and liberty in other fields, including the release of biotechnology research by CAMBIA and the encyclopedia named Wikipedia, as well as later projects. The open-source concept has also been applied to media other than computer programs, e.g., by Creative Commons. It also constitutes an example of user innovation (see for example the book Democratizing Innovation).
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