COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN TERMS AND CONCEPTS OF FREE SOFTWARE AS A RESOURCE OF THE INFORMATIZATION PROCESS
The article provides a comprehensive systematization of the most important terms, definitions and concepts encountered in the use of free software, which allowed us to formulate an author’s approach to the definition of open source software. The main result is the proposed methodological approach to multilevel systematization of the revealed differences among all categories of software, the formation of certain groups and classes from among them, with the possibility of further detailed analysis and evaluation of their effectiveness as a resource of the digital process.