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Open Source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. However, the term is commonly used in relation to or to describe computer software for which the source code is freely available. Source Codes are program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration. Therefore, generically speaking open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open.