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The Open Source software movement is probably the single most significant development in the software industry. Open Source software enables you to control your spend, your development, your innovation, your assets and your speed.

Open source software is free.  Not always "Free of charge", but always "Freely distributed", "Freely accessible" and "Freely modifiable" - and it is this freedom that makes it so valuable.

Squiz chose to make its software Open Source - not as a charitable act, but as a sound commercial decision.  Here’s how we work:

• Our product development model is to ensure that MySource Matrix is the best CMS in its class, and to ensure it has the widest possible and most progressive user base
  
  
• Our business model is to provide commercial development and support services around MySource Matrix

Some of the most successful software projects in the world are open source: Linux is probably the most famous, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Apache (the web server software), PHP (the language in which MySource Matrix is written) and MySQL & PostgreSQL (the databases which can be used to power a MySource Matrix website) are all examples of Open Source projects.

We don't use them just because they’re free - we use them because they provide the best tools to deliver value to our clients.  Low cost, flexible and often better technology than commercially available products is exactly why Squiz, IBM and many other companies prefer open source too.

If you’d like to learn more about open source software you can visit www.opensource.org. Alternatively you can request more information via our online contact form.

If you read the MySource Matrix's license, you will see how open source products use copyright constructively to ensure projects stay open and encourage user contribution.