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| | Open-source software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Open source highlights that the source code is viewable to all and proponents of the term usually emphasize the quality of the software and how this is caused by the development models which are possible and popular among free software/open source software projects. | | | Software developers may want to publish their software with an open-source software license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand how it works. | | | Open source advocates point out that as of the early 2000s, at least 90 percent of computer programmers are employed not to produce software for direct sale, but rather to design and customize software for other purposes, such as in-house applications. |
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| | The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | See Categories of Free Software for a description of how ``free software,'' ``copylefted software'' and other categories of software relate to each other. | | | Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. | | | Software developers do not have the power to eliminate or override these restrictions, but what they can and must do is refuse to impose them as conditions of use of the program. |
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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| | ONLamp.com -- What Is Open Source |
| | Advocacy is critical to the spread of open source and free software. | | | 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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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/15/what-is-opensource.html
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| | Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) References |
| | Tim O'Reilly's "The Open Source Paradigm Shift" (May 2004) is a very interesting piece arguing that OSS/FS is an expression of three trends: the commoditization of software, network-enabled collaboration, and software customizability (software as a service). | | | Don't confuse ``open source software'' or ``free software'' with ``non-commercial'' software -- there are many examples of commercial open source / free software, and OSS/FS must be usable for commercial purposes. | | | Open Source Software as a new business model: The entry of Red Hat Software, Inc. on the operating system market with Linux by Bojidar Mantarov, August 1999. |
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http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_refs.html
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| | Debian -- What Does Free Mean? |
| | To the uninitiated, either a piece of software is free or it isn't. | | | Only software that complies with the DFSG is allowed in the main distribution of Debian. | | | Many people new to free software find themselves confused because the word "free" in the term "free software" is not used the way they expect. |
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http://www.debian.org/intro/free
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| | Free Software |
| | Free Software is also referred to as Freed Software, Liberated Software (software libre) or FRS (freely redistributable software). | | | Open Source refers to the fact that the source code of Free Software is open to and for the world to take, to modify and to reuse. | | | The precise meaning of Free Software is spelled out in the Debian Free Software Guidelines or the Free Software Definition while Open Source is defined officially by the Open Source Definition. |
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http://www.free-soft.org
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| | Open Source Initiative OSI - The Open Source Definition |
| | Software linked with GPLed libraries only inherits the GPL if it forms a single work, not any software with which they are merely distributed. | | | We think the Open Source Definition captures what the great majority of the software community originally meant, and still mean, by the term "Open Source". | | | The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution. |
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| | Software [OCLC - Research] |
| | Source code and documentation, as well as the class files or binaries, are available. | | | The Open Source initiative is described in more detail on the OCLC Research Open Software Development page. | | | This software is being further developed as Open Source Development projects. |
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| | What is open source? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | The process of eliminating bugs and improving the software happens at a much quicker rate than through the traditional development channels of commercial software as the information is shared throughout the open source community and does not originate and channel through a corporation's research and development cogs. | | | The licensed software cannot place restrictions on other software that is distributed with it. | | | (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. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/o/open_source.html
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| | Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research |
| | Open source, in Raymond's view, is just source code, not all of the complex infrastructure and implicit knowledge that are used in large software projects. | | | Open source software development should better be viewed as a special case of academic research. | | | Source availability is an additional form of consumer protection; the user benefits even if he or she does not program in C. It essentially ensures much better survivability of a product in a changing OS environment. |
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http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov
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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. | | | GNU Project and Free Software Foundation - Home of the GNU operating system, the GNU General Public License, and the Free Software Foundation. | | | 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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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Open_Source/Software
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| | Open Source Software News |
| | TiVo uses the open source Linux operating system in its digital video recorders and gets a lot of heat from people in the Free and Open Source Software community because those boxes aren't as open as hackers... | | | SAN JOSE, Calif. - " Agile Software has plans to add the Linux open source operating system to the list of supported environments for its Agile PLM solutions. | | | With the inclusion of the OpenRDMA Project, the Alliance said that it is working toward the goal of a single software stack for downstream Linux distributions that is transport-agnostic with support for RDMA... |
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| | Open Source Software |
| | Open source users are encouraged to use Bugzilla to report bugs or suggest enhancements. | | | Copyright 2006 PADL Software Pty Ltd ABN 16 085 895 585. | | | The LDAP Nameservice Switch (NSS) module is an open source project to integrate LDAP as a native nameservice under AIX, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems. |
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http://www.padl.com/Contents/OpenSourceSoftware.html
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| | Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers! |
| | Software that cannot be modified and redistributed without further limitation, but whose source code is visible (e.g., “source viewable” or “open box” software, including “shared source” and “community” licenses), is not considered here since such software don’t meet the definition of OSS/FS. | | | 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. |
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http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
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| | NASA Ames Research Center OpenSource |
| | CODE is a software framework for control and observation in distributed environments. | | | Livingstone2 is a reusable artificial intelligence (AI) software system designed to assist spacecraft, life support systems, chemical plants or other complex systems in operating robustly with minimal human supervision, even in the face of hardware failures or unexpected events. | | | NASA conducts research and development in software and software technology as an essential response to the needs of NASA missions. |
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| | Open Source Software CD |
| | The latest versions of all software are included. | | | It is a burnable ISO image for a CD that contains high-quality, Free, open source software for Microsoft Windows 95 and higher. | | | Offering a DVD image will certainly provide enough room to fit all known high-quality Open Source Software for Windows onto a single disc, but the problem is that very few computers are equipped with a DVD-ROM, much less a DVD writer, at this point. |
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| | Welcome! - The Apache Software Foundation |
| | The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. | | | The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. | | | You are invited to participate in The Apache Software Foundation. |
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| | The GNU Operating System |
| | The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Project. | | | The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX like operating system which is free software: the GNU system, (GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”; it is pronounced guh-noo, like canoe. | | | We support the FSF's mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users. |
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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. | | | Most W3C software is available directly from our CVS base. |
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| | MacDevCenter.com -- Introducing the Mac Open Source Software Directory |
| | Currently we have more than 100 entries that consist of software and projects that are open source and run on the Mac. | | | Many of the entries are for Mac OS 9 and earlier, but more and more open-source software is becoming available for Mac OS X., and we'll be adding these listings as we become aware of new titles. | | | This incarnation is titled the Mac Open Source Software Directory. |
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http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/08/03/mac_directory_intro.html
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| | BBC NEWS Business Brazil adopts open-source software |
| | The world of technology is opening up; there are hundreds of thousands of people working to improve free software. | | | For Lula, free software is a development issue | | | Microsoft executives have also questioned the security of software whose source code is freely available. |
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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. | | | The gamut of open-source software designed for the non-techies runs from small utilities such as alarm clocks for your desktop to major products that many folks are surprised to learn are free. | | | Contrast that with commercial software where the code is often a closely held secret; no one outside the company can see what makes it tick. |
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| | opensource.ucc.ie: resources for researchers |
| | Software Process - Improvement and Practice Journal: Special Issue on Free/Open Source Software Processes | | | Open Source Application Spaces: 5th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering - Deadline extended to 28 February 2005 |
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| | O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2003 |
| | Titled "Your Open Source Plan," the article explains why CIOs need to seriously consider using open source software. | | | An Interview with George Dyson -- In this interview with chromatic, George Dyson talks about his upcoming OSCON keynote in which he'll explore the pioneering work in computation and computational biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, drawing parallels between that world and open source development. | | | New Sessions Added on MySQL -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, software engineer with Yahoo!, is slated to teach two sessions titled Benchmarking MySQL Queries and MySQL Scaling Pains on Friday, July 11. |
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| | SourceForge.net: Welcome to SourceForge.net |
| | The Software Map redesign was focused on improving the usability of the map and to redesign the interaction around Topics, one of the major categories of metadata about projects kept in the Trove. | | | Powered by the SourceForge® collaborative development environment from VA Software | | | Bring the power of collaborative software development to your company. |
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| | Open Source Software for Windows- Suggested Applications |
| | Xenu is execellent free software but not Open Source. | | | Old, outdated, use Netscape 6 or higher which is based off of the Mozilla code. | | | Report Magic makes the reports from Analog look prettier. |
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| | Open Source |
| | Source code for Chess in Mac OS X | | | A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Open Source. | | | Technical discussions relating to the HeaderDoc Open Source Project. |
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| | GnuCash - Open Source Accounting Software |
| | The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software version 1.8.12, which is expected to be the very last release of the gtk1-based gnucash-1.8.x series. | | | This web site is devoted to promoting the Gnucash.org software development project. | | | The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software version 1.8.11. |
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| | Open Source Software for Windows |
| | Quality software, as rated by My Open Source. | | | Dev-PHP is an integrated development environment for PHP. | | | Get the latest Open Source Software direct to your desktop. |
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| | SGI - Developer Central 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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| | 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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| | freshmeat.net: Welcome to freshmeat.net |
| | The information includes hostname, software packages, memory, OS information, process information, kernel modules, network routes, socket ports, ulimits, chkconfig, hardware devices, swap, disks, DNS info, top, processor, meminfo, dmesg, cron jobs, network interfaces, and more. | | | Btrcv is not useful for single files, but if you receive files when you have opted to "Always accept files from this device", then you will no longer get any progress on received files from gnome-obex-server. | | | Tip: Tired of seeing a lot of software not of the slightest interest to you? |
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| | ReportLab - Open Source Software |
| | If you would like to know more you can look at our projects pages, download the software, or read the | | | Note, all our products are cross-platform and known to work with Windows, Macintosh (8/9 and OS X), Solaris, AIX, Linux, FreeBSD and more. | | | For more interactive information, we have a reportlab-users mailing list: Join the list. |
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| | The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows! |
| | More info about Open Source Software and the philosophy behind it can be found at: | | | FreeWire [GNU GPL] (Note: sombody reported to me that this software contains SpyWare. | | | (I need testers for this software, please mail me your experiences!) |
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