Open Architecture

Categories: Tech

Not proprietary. Free to all.

An open architecture usually refers to a computer coding system structure purposely intended to be...open.

Think: Lego. Its architecture is open. You could, in theory, smelt or melt or however they make Lego, and then build your own blocks that would then plug into any Lego system. They're open; the blocks...fit. Obviously and easily.

The internet was built to be open...ish. Most of its structures are open and easily traversible to the general internet coding population.

Not open? Oracle. Microsoft. Apple. You're either in them. Or you're not. They don't just plug into developers' whims and vision. Not without becoming employees or living inside their tents first.



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