# Open-source and water. Same or different?

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**Created:** [July 18, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-source-and-water-same-or-different/30062 "2017-07-18T23:10:50Z")\
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Open-source and water. Same or different?

Quite frequently I get questions from people around me about how open-source software differs from proprietary software. The formal answer is that with open-source the source code is owned by no one and available to everyone, while proprietary software vendors keep the code of the program secret. However, I have found this answer does not …  
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