If you create software, you have a choice between making it open source or proprietary. If you make it open source, anyone can use your code, within certain restrictions, to make their own programs.

Ever since Ada Lovelace, a polymath often considered the first computer programmer, proposed in 1843 using holes punched into cards to solve mathematical equations on a never-built mechanical computer ...

Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. There are many kinds of software, including operating systems, applications, and malware. Software can be distributed ...