# ReactOS Open Source Support Program

DevFeed: [ReactOS Open Source Support Program](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reactos-open-source-support-program-33219.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-open-source-support-program/>)

Published: 2014-05-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Operating system](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/operating-system.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Support](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/support.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [support](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/support.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS introduces the Open Source Support Program as part of its Community Edition initiative. The free program supports software released under free or open-source licenses by making participating applications available through the Setup App Manager and helping maintain their working state.

## Source excerpt

Open source is more than just individual bits of software in isolation, it is about the ecosystem and environment that those bits of software come together to create. To that end, as part of the Community Edition initiative the ReactOS Project has put together the Open Source Support Program to help its end users in building that environment. When a user installs a new operating system, one of the first things they need to do is go and install all of the applications that they actually need.