Editing Open-source software (section)

=== Extensions for non-software use ===
While the term open source applied originally only to the source code of software, it is now being applied to many other areas such as [[Open Source Ecology|open-source ecology]], a movement to decentralize technologies so that any human can use them.<ref name=":19">{{Cite web |last=Stallman |first=Richard |date=2007 |title=Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software |url=https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Powers |first1=Stephen M. |last2=Hampton |first2=Stephanie E. |date=2019 |title=Open science, reproducibility, and transparency in ecology |journal=Ecological Applications |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=e01822 |doi=10.1002/eap.1822 |pmid=30362295 |bibcode=2019EcoAp..29E1822P |issn=1051-0761|doi-access=free }}</ref> However, it is often misapplied to other areas that have different and competing principles, which overlap only partially.<ref name=":3"/>

The same principles that underlie open-source software can be found in many other ventures, such as open source, [[open content]], and [[open collaboration]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cheliotis |first=Giorgos |date=2009 |title=From open source to open content: Organization, licensing and decision processes in open cultural production |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2009.02.006 |journal=Decision Support Systems |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=229–244 |doi=10.1016/j.dss.2009.02.006 |issn=0167-9236}}</ref><ref name="Open Collaboration"/>

This "culture" or ideology takes the view that the principles apply more generally to facilitate concurrent input of different agendas, approaches, and priorities, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial companies.<ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |last=Raymond |first=Eric |date=2005 |title=The Cathedral and the Bazaar (originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998) |journal=First Monday |doi=10.5210/fm.v0i0.1472 |doi-access=free |issn=1396-0466}}</ref>