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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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| | Open source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Developers have used the term Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS), or Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS), consequently, to describe open-source software that is freely available and free of charge. | | | 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. | | | Software is not the only field affected by open source; many fields of study and social and political views have been affected by the growth of the concept of open source. |
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | Free 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. | | | Open Source is a trademark of the Software in the Public Interest. |
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| | Open Source Initiative OSI - The Open Source Definition |
| | 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 OSI Certified mark is OSI's way of certifying that the license under which the software is distributed conforms to the OSD; the generic term "Open Source" cannot provide that assurance, but we still encourage use of the term "Open Source" to mean conformance to the OSD. | | | Software linked with GPLed libraries only inherits the GPL if it forms a single work, not any software with which they are merely distributed. |
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| | Software [OCLC - Research] |
| | 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. | | | Source code and documentation, as well as the class files or binaries, are available. |
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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. | | | (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 code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the 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. | | | 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. | | | Open Channel Foundation - Hosting open source projects and software from academic and research institutions and providing commercial services. |
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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. | | | The open source movement is playing an important and vital role in software development at the end of the 20th century, and open source will continue to be an important center for creativity in the next century. |
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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. | | | According to IT services provider, Unisys, open source software is set to have a similar impact on the marketplace as the internet did in the 1990s. |
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| | Open Source Software |
| | Open source users are encouraged to use Bugzilla to report bugs or suggest enhancements. | | | 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. | | | PADL has had a long history of involvement with the open source community. |
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| | Free software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The usual way for software to be distributed as free software is for the software to be accompanied by a free software license, and the source code of the software to be made available. | | | The Free Software Directory is a free software project that maintains a large database of free software packages. | | | Freedom from such restrictions is central to the concept of "free software", such that the opposite of free software is proprietary software, and not software which is sold for profit, such as commercial software. |
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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. | | | Note that those who use the term “open source software” tend to emphasize technical advantages of such software (such as better reliability and security), while those who use the term “Free Software” tend to emphasize freedom from control by another and/or ethical issues. |
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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 Development |
| | Open Source Software, or OSS, refers to software for which the source code is distributed without charge or limitations on modifications. | | | Open source is based on the philosophy of free software. | | | Open source is software developed by uncoordinated but loosely collaborating programmers, using freely distributed source code and the communications infrastructure of the Internet. |
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| | Open Source Software CD |
| | 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. | | | The latest versions of all software are included. |
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| | Welcome! - The Apache Software Foundation |
| | The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. | | | 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. | | | You are invited to participate in The Apache Software Foundation. |
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| | Open source vs. free software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Open source software and free software are terms used to describe approaches and philosophies under which certain computer software is made available to the public. | | | On a practical level open source software and free software usually share the same licenses, but according to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the open source movement is philosophically distinct from the free software movement. | | | Open source is the term used, when the source code for software may be examined and viewed by any third party. |
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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. | | | Note that as this license is GPL compatible, it is possible to redistribute software based on W3C sources under a GPL license. |
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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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| | USATODAY.com - Open-source software offers alternative to off-the-shelf products |
| | 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. | | | Just about all open-source software is completely free, usually licensed under the GNU General Public License which states, among other things, that it's "intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software — to make sure the software is free for all its users." | | | The term "open source" means that the source code—the actual computer code the programmers wrote—is available for everyone to see and use. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business Brazil adopts open-source software |
| | Dalton explains that open-source software is an essential to the project: partly because it drastically reduces costs; and partly because it can be modified to suit local needs. | | | The world of technology is opening up; there are hundreds of thousands of people working to improve free software. | | | Microsoft executives have also questioned the security of software whose source code is freely available. |
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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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| | ossdev.html |
| | Open Source software development uses a different process, a different sense of order than closed source; but it's not anarchy. | | | Most free software projects use an iterative approach to development while using open source programming tools. | | | Open Source Software development suffers from widespread misunderstandings in the media from myths, false claims and disinformation. |
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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. | | | In this ONLamp.com interview, Mitch discusses whether and how collaborative development can bring open source software to the desktop in a teaser for his upcoming OSCON keynote. | | | 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. |
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| | Tigris.org: Open Source Software Engineering |
| | The open source software development movement has produced a number of very powerful and useful software development tools, but it has also evolved a software development process that works well under conditions where normal development processes fail. | | | Tigris.org provides information resources for software engineering professionals and students, and a home for open source software engineering tool projects. | | | Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development. |
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