Many folks think of Free and/or Open Source Software (FOSS) as simply being cost-free. While this is usually the case, the more important aspect of FOSS is that it is free to update, revise, improve, re-write. Open Source means that the source code is open for perusal to anyone that is interested.
Open source leads to open formats too. Think of some well-known closed source word processing software for example. Cast your mind back a few years if you can, and think about some of the earlier releases of word processing software. If you or someone you know had written documents using that software back then, are you able to open them, read them, and edit them at the present time? Perhaps you can, perhaps not. This is another reason for Open Source.
You can find out much more about FOSS and the aims of Software Freedom Day, but checking out this website: http://softwarefreedomday.org/
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