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OpenACS is an Open Source Web Community System. A web community is
where while the users are responsible for generating most of the
content. Sites like <a href="http://slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>, <a
href="http://groups.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a>, and <a
href="http://photo.net">Photo.net</a> are examples of community sites. They
usually consist of features like a bulletin board (bboard, sometimes
called a discussion forum), news, and chat type features.
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It is Open Source for several reasons, some ideological, some
practical, and some historic. In the software industry, and indeed in
the web world, software licensing only generates a small part of the
total revenue. Even large organizations like ORACLE and SAP make most
of their money from training and services. In order to make what
money they do from licensing they have enormous sales and marketing
forces. A small organization like arsDigita (the company which wrote
the original version of the ACS -- before it was OpenACS) was planned
to focus mostly on services and wouldn't have wanted the hassle of
licenses to begin with. Making their product Open Source also gave
them free advertising with the technically savvy, it also allowed them
to get free QA work, software patches, packages, and feedback. All of
these are vital to the success of any software package.
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