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| | Open source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Open source journalism referred to the standard journalistic techniques of news gathering and fact checking, and reflected a similar term that was in use from 1992 in military intelligence circles, open source intelligence. | | | Open source hardware — hardware whose initial specification, usually in a software format, are published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the hardware and source code without paying royalties or fees. | | | Open design — which involves applying open source methodologies to the design of artifacts and systems in the physical world. |
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| | ONLamp.com -- What Is Open Source |
| | Open source began as, and for the most part still is, software created by a community of people who are dedicated to working together in a highly collaborative and evolutionary way. | | | This is the essential meaning of open source: the source code--the language in which the software is written and the key to understanding how the software works--can be obtained and improved by anyone with the right skills. | | | The most important difference between software created by the open source communities and commercial software sold by vendors is that open source software is published under licenses that ensure that the source code is available to everyone to inspect, change, download, and explore as they wish. |
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| | Wired 11.11: Open Source Everywhere |
| | Open source, of course, is the magic behind Linux, the operating system that is transforming the software industry. | | | There is open source publishing: With Bruce Perens, who helped define open source software in the '90s, Prentice Hall is publishing a series of computer books open to any use, modification, or redistribution, with readers' improvements considered for succeeding editions. | | | ThinkCycle's collaborative approach is modeled on a method that for more than a decade has been closely associated with software development: open source. |
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| | open source - a Whatis.com definition - see also: open-source |
| | Open Source is the result of a long-time movement toward software that is developed and improved by a group of volunteers cooperating together on a network. | | | The open source movement has gained momentum as commercial enterprises have begun to consider Linux as an open alternative to Windows operating systems. | | | 1) In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. |
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| | Open Source - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | However, the obvious meaning for the expression ``open source software'' is ``You can look at the source code.'' This is a much weaker criterion than free software; it includes free software, but also includes semi-free programs such as Xv, and even some proprietary programs, including Qt under its original license (before the QPL). | | | The official definition of ``open source software,'' as published by the Open Source Initiative, is very close to our definition of free software; however, it is a little looser in some respects, and they have accepted a few licenses that we consider unacceptably restrictive of the users. | | | In effect, these companies seek to gain the favorable cachet of ``open source'' for their proprietary software products--even though those are not ``open source software''--because they have some relationship to free software or because the same company also maintains some free software. |
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| | What is open source? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | (1) Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open. | | | Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations. | | | Open source software is changing the rules for IT. |
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| | Open Source ZDNet.com |
| | BitTorrent is open source software for Windows and a primary method for distributing Linux. | | | Open source is a process, in which what's basic becomes transparent and everyone builds on top of it. | | | A winner, in the open source sense, is a project with a lot of support, an active community, and a growing user base. |
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| | The Open Source Definition |
| | Businesses are adopting the Open Source model becuase it allows groups of companies to collaborate in solving a problem without the threat of an anti-trust lawsuit, and because of the leverage they gain when the computer-programming public contributes free improvements to their software. | | | But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. | | | The propogation of many different and incompatible licenses works to the detriment of Open Source software because fragments of one program can not be used in another program with an incompatible license. |
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Open Source |
| | Intel Open Source Computer Vision Library - The computer vision library will provide a wide range of functions, including gesture recognition, object-tracking, face recognition and camera calibration, that will help researchers develop ways to use "computer vision" as a method for people to interact with computers. | | | OpenSource.hp.com - A number of Open Source software projects that run on various HP (former Compaq) systems. | | | Free-soft.org - General information on Free Software (Open Source) and its community. |
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Open Source: Software |
| | The OSSwin Project - Project to build a directory of open source software which is able to replace much of the proprietary software most Windows-users use nowadays. | | | Open Channel Foundation - Hosting open source projects and software from academic and research institutions and providing commercial services. | | | Business Readiness Rating - A new standard model for rating open source software, with the goal of giving companies a source for determining whether the software they are considering is mature enough to adopt. |
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| | Apple - Open Source |
| | In addition, Apple uses software created by the Open Source community, such as the HTML rendering engine for Safari, and returns its enhancements to the community. | | | Major components of Mac OS X, including the UNIX-based core, are made available under Apple’s Open Source license, allowing developers and students to view source code, learn from it and submit suggestions and modifications. | | | Apple believes that using Open Source methodology makes Mac OS X a more robust, secure operating system, as its core components have been subjected to the crucible of peer review for decades. |
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| | OSU Open Source Lab |
| | The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University exists to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community that develops and uses it. | | | With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide. | | | The OSL's talented team of students and full-time staff do this by focusing on software development as well as hosting the world's largest open source projects. |
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| | Open Workbench - Open Source Project Management and Project Scheduling for Windows |
| | Open source developers will find a ready-made community of business users interested in their enhancements and extensions. | | | Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. | | | The source code and other developer information are available on SourceForge. |
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| | Open Source GIS |
| | Almost all of these projects fit the definition of Open Source Software as defined by the Open Source Initiative, and most of them fit the stricter definition of Free Software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. | | | Computer Vision Library "Our goal is to establish an open source vision community and provide a site where the distributed efforts of the community can be consolidated and performance optimized." Also see this Computer Vision List. | | | OpenDX "Open Visualization Data Explorer (by IBM) is a visualization framework that gives users the ability to apply advanced visualization and analysis techniques to their data. |
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| | Free / Open Source Research Community (Home) |
| | In the spirit of free and open source software (F/OSS), we are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that we may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development. | | | We invite researchers to post their papers on open source and free software here, and to add themselves to the research directory, so that our community can become steadily larger and more comprehensive. | | | Add yourself to our directory of researchers who are interested in free/open source software. |
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| | Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers! |
| | Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) (also abbreviated as FLOSS or FOSS) has risen to great prominence. | | | Chuck Upsdell has combined many data sources and estimates that, as of September 2004, IE has decreased from 94% to 84%, as users switch to other browser families (mainly Gecko); he also believes this downward trend is likely to continue. | | | Coverity also did not have the source code for the many third-party drivers for Windows; these would need to be included for an accurate comparison, especially since Windows driver problems are known to be a significant problem in the reliability of many Windows deployments. |
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| | OpenSourceCMS - Home |
| | The OSCMS Summit (aka the Open Source Content Management Systems and Blogging Tools Summit) was conceived as a place to gather together Free and Open Source Software developers who are all working in the problem space of managing web content. | | | The great advantage that open tools have is that they can cooperate in solving these problems collectively, sharing ideas and even code directly. | | | To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. |
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| | O'Reilly Network -- Open Source Convention Coverage |
| | InfoWorld: Human Genome is Open Source, Too At a gathering of open source software developers, two leading researchers involved with the sequencing of the human genome delivered presentations citing the benefits of open source both in the development of computer systems and in science. | | | OSCON 2002 Wrap-Up Andy Oram reports that the major open source and free software projects are continuing to develop and meet the challenges of the current computing industry. | | | Dan Gillmor: Open Source Convention Continues The morning's keynotes are about biology, or, rather, the growing use of open source software in the field we're coming to know as bioinformatics. |
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| | Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source" |
| | The event referred to in the first paragraph is the 23 January announcement of the Mozilla source code release. | | | We suggest that everywhere we as a culture have previously talked about "free software", the label should be changed to "open source". | | | Opposers include Richard Stallman, who initially flirted with the idea but now thinks the term "open source" isn't pure enough. |
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| | NewsForge: The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source |
| | Hamilton, Ontario, Linux and open source enthusiasts were privileged to hear former Red Hat CEO Bob Young, author and Unix historian Peter Salus, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Ren Bucholz banter about SCO vs. Linux and other patent and copyright issues at a meeting of the Hamilton Linux User Group last week. | | | Like many features in free and open source software, OpenOffice.org's spellcheck, hyphenation, and thesaurus dictionaries are based on code from earlier projects. | | | One of the largest open source projects in academia is the Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSP) -- a specialized content management system, comparable to WebCT. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Open-source software offers alternative to off-the-shelf products |
| | The term "open source" means that the source code—the actual computer code the programmers wrote—is available for everyone to see and use. | | | For example, last month it was big news (especially in the hacker community) when the source code for two Microsoft operating systems was leaked to the Internet. | | | It works "transparently" with Microsoft Office files so you can open any.DOC or.XLS file you already have, and it's available for Windows, Macintosh (a Mac OS X version is in the works), Linux, and other Unix-based operating systems. |
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| | Open Source Software Institute |
| | As a publicly-funded, open source program, the Jail Management System will be made freely available through public software repositories. | | | Joseph Kolibal, of the University of Southern Mississippi, has developed a new approach to data processing with the potential to improve the performance of numerous applications such as consumer digital imaging, defense, streaming media, medical imaging, character recognition, spectral analysis and aeronautical modeling. | | | The cover story on the May 2005 issue of Government Technology magazine features Maj. Julian Allen and the Mississippi Automated System Project (ASP)'s efforts to develop and implement a completely open source Jail Management System (JMS). |
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| | Darwin - Open Source |
| | HeaderDoc 8 is the next generation of HeaderDoc, a tool for generating documentation from comments embedded in headers and source code. | | | Apple's open source projects allow developers to customize and enhance key Apple software. | | | Visit Apple's Advanced Computation Group page for details, or the A/G BLAST project page to download the source code and binary versions. |
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| | O'Reilly Open Source Convention - August 1-5, 2005 - Portland, OR |
| | At OSCON 2005, we explored three deep trends affecting open source: the commoditization of software, network-enabled collaboration, and software customizability. | | | The role that open source software has changed significantly. | | | No longer the domain of the alpha geek and hacker it is now at the heart of many commercial software ventures. |
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| | W3C Open Source Software |
| | W3C software is free and open source: the software is made primarily by people of the Web community, for the Web community. | | | As explained below, all of W3C software source is freely available, developers are encouraged to get the source for the projects they care about and start hacking right away. | | | It is based on a flexible perl library that can be used to process lists of Web documents for validation or other tasks. |
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| | Go Open Source - Home |
| | The Go Open Source campaign has announced the establishment of a formal channel programme aimed at furthering the proliferation of Linux and open source software in the South African business community. | | | The Guide to open source software initiatives and people (GOSSIP) is now fully functional. | | | Order a copy of the open CD for free here, and experience Open Source Software today! |
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| | SGI - SGI Global Developer Program: SGI Open Source |
| | SGI believes that connecting ever more of the distributed intellectual resources of the Net helps individual developers and the global Open Source community to develop alliances and accelerate the growth and maturation of market-like computational ecologies. | | | Wanderers, seekers, and developers are offered this gateway to Open Source technical content and advice, libraries of downloadable software, contribution points, email lists, and links to the Open Source community. | | | Referenced here are a few useful and well known newsgroups, support references, and other Open Source and Linux-related information and download sites you may find valuable. |
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| | Change Management & Auditing System Availability & IT Security Tripwire Enterprise/Open Source Tripwire Comparison |
| | Utilizing a basic command line interface, the software will detect changes on each server on which it is installed, alerting users to intrusions and unexpected changes. | | | In 2000, to meet the needs for a robust file integrity tool that could be compiled onto a wide variety of POSIX-compatible operating systems, Tripwire contributed Open Source Tripwire, Linux Edition, to the Open Source Project (under the GNU General Public License.) | | | Eugene Spafford and Gene Kim created the initial Academic Source Release of Tripwire software in 1992 while at Purdue University. |
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| | openMosix, an Open Source Linux Cluster Project |
| | CVS (browse) contains the source for the latest development snapshot. | | | New releases of MOSIX became proprietary software in late 2001 and openMosix was begun February 10, 2002 by Moshe Bar to keep this highly regarded Linux Clustering solution available as open source. | | | openMosix is the GPLv2, Open Source, project to extend the outstanding MOSIX project. |
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| | The Open Source Weblog |
| | The Open Source Weblog is part of the Weblogs, Inc. Network, a network of more than 90 blogs. | | | It's a GNOME app that analyzes your hard drive, or a selected folder and its subfolders, or even a remote drive (which is way cool), and then gives you a list back of every folder and file, as well as the number of objects and the size. | | | Excellent list of open source Mac OS X software |
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| | CRN Open Source |
| | A new frontier is opening up in the open-source space, where a third wave of software adoption is taking root higher up the stack—at the business application layer—and further downmarket, where solution providers are best positioned to profit. | | | Even Microsoft should be concerned about these open-source applications, sources said, particularly since its Microsoft Business Solutions unit has not grown as quickly as executives had hoped after the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant acquired Great Plains Software five years ago. | | | Last week at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, Intel, SpikeSource and Carnegie-Mellon University announced a Business Readiness Rating System for open-source software. |
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| | SGI - Developer Central Open Source Open Inventor |
| | Earlier this year SGI released the source code of the OpenGL Sample Implementation to the open source community, clearing the way for high-quality OpenGL implementations on Linux. | | | The release of Open Inventor further highlights SGI's commitment to providing hardware and software technologies that are relevant to graphics developers. | | | SGI has received numerous requests for a GNU/Linux® version of Open Inventor. |
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| | Main Page - Open Watcom |
| | Welcome to Open Watcom — a joint effort between SciTech Software Inc, Sybase® and the Open Source development community to maintain and enhance the Watcom C/C++ and Fortran cross compilers and tools. | | | A list of user projects developed using the Open Watcom compilers and tools. | | | A list of projects is available for potential contributors to find out about current development efforts. |
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| | OpenLaszlo |
| | The Compiler compiles LZX source files into executable binaries for targeted run-time environments. | | | An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries. | | | Version 2.0 of IBM's Eclipse plug-in for Laszlo provides a visual (WYSIWYG) editor, support for OpenLaszlo 3.0, user interface improvements, and miscellaneous bug fixes. |
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| | UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network - View Document |
| | All the stakeholders involved believe that FOSS is in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) because it increases access to, ownership of, and control of knowledge and information through the collaborative development of newer technologies and communication opportunities. | | | Welcome to the International Open Source Network an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. | | | Conference between Head’s of Science and Computer Engineering Departments in the field of Open Source Software |
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| | opensource.ucc.ie: resources for researchers |
| | Open Source Application Spaces: 5th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering - Deadline extended to 28 February 2005 | | | Software Process - Improvement and Practice Journal: Special Issue on Free/Open Source Software Processes |
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| | BBC - OpenSource |
| | Releasing open source software helps our audience get additional value from the work they've funded, and also get tools for free that they couldn't get any other way. | | | For the BBC, open source software development is an extension of our Public Service remit. | | | It lists projects developed by the BBC where the source code has been released as open source. |
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| | Welcome to internet.com's Linux/Open Source Channel |
| | Just Linux is where the computing professionals go to find answers to Linux-system implementation and maintenance questions. | | | Your daily source for Apache News and Information. |
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| | OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software |
| | Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. | | | OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software | | | Solaris to Linux Migration: A Guide for System Administrators (0) |
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| | Wired News: Not Your Father's Encyclopedia |
| | A core group of regular contributors help monitor the site's recent changes page to quickly correct any errors and ensure that entries aren't vandalized. |
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| | Adobe Open Source: Main Page |
| | Adobe's open source web site is the home for the Adobe Source Libraries (ASL) and information about other Adobe open source projects. | | | The purpose of the Wiki is to provide an environment where anyone can get insight, help, feedback, and collaboration on all things pertaining to the Adobe Open Source initiative and the ASL. | | | ASL provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries. |
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| | OpenNap: Open Source Napster Server |
| | Konspire -- open source distributed client in java | | | napdev community (onelist) -- general mailing list for open source napster developers | | | Scour Exchange -- scour.net distributed file sharing (open protocol) [DEFUNCT] |
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| | The WebKit Open Source Project |
| | Once you have either of these, you can report bugs you find in the software. | | | There are many ways in which you can get involved with the project. | | | Welcome to the web site for the WebKit Open Source Project! |
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| | The Open Group: Boundaryless Information Flow through interoperability |
| | The Open Group's Interconnect Software Consortium (ICSC) releases Version 2.1 of the Interconnect Transport Application Programming Interface (IT-API) | | | The Open Group's IT Architect Certification program adds a complementary level | | | The Open Group: Boundaryless Information Flow through interoperability |
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| | Doug's Open Source |
| | Everyone gets 15 minutes of fame :-) and also NewBreedSoftware Open Source Software |
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| | O'Reilly Open Source Convention - July 26-30, 2004 - Portland, OR |
| | Sessions in iCalendar Format -- If you have iCal or other applications that use.ics files, you'll be happy to know that the O'Reilly Open Source Convention sessions are now available in the iCalendar format. | | | You can also download presentation and multimedia files from our previous conference. | | | Don't Miss the 6th O'Reilly Open Source Convention -- Hear from convention chair Nathan Torkington and O'Reilly and Associates president Tim O'Reilly on the latest trends, issues, speakers, and events planned for OSCON 2004. |
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| | Mamboserver.com - Home |
| | Currently under development is version 4.6 of the award winning Mambo Open Source Content Management System. | | | Mambo is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License. | | | Mambo is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. |
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| | Asterisk The Open Source PBX |
| | Effective immediately, the primary source code distribution point for Asterisk, Zaptel and other related projects (other than release tarballs of course) will be svn.digium.com. | | | The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce that we have migrated our project repositories and development processes over to the Subversion version control system! | | | The design concept was provided by Harley Alaniz and the web site was put together by the web developers at Digium. |
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| | Red Hat Truth Happens |
| | The open source software model continues to make better software faster, just as it has for years. | | | We're making movies and encouraging others to join us in making a difference. | | | With our help, new people figure this out every day. |
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| | osCommerce, Open Source Online Shop E-Commerce Solutions |
| | With no special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments. | | | osCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. | | | osCommerce utilizes Open Source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server. |
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