Open Source

Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.

Popular open source projects include the Apache web server, MySQL database, and Firefox web browser, as well as many others.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about, and advocate for, the benefits of open source. OSI works to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community.

One of the OSI's most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open-source cooperation.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Open Source”

• Google says: Chrome for Christmas

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 659
  Filed under: Internet , Competitive strategy , Google (GOOG) , Microsoft (MSFT) , Technology Google ( GOOG ) is letting a few developers peek behind the curtain. The early look the companys new operating system, Chrome , is happening in true Google style: by invitation only. When its released, which should ...
  4 hours ago

• A Nobel peace prize to Open Source

  
  Field Commander Wieers — Authority: 92
  I was amused by the idea to propose Linus Torvalds for a Nobel peace prize. But it does make sense to honor the Open Source community in general for the collaboration across many boundaries. Open Source levels the playing field for anyone to innovate and improve, it is an extension of what is known in the academic ...
  4 hours ago

• Free Software Saves Time/Money

  
  Internet Marketing and Shopping Resources — Authority: 136
  H ave you got this Yet? Under Perens’ definition, open source describes a broad general type of software license that makes source code available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent copyright restrictions. The principles, as stated, say absolutely nothing about trademark or patent use and require ...
  4 hours ago

• HOW TO - Getting AVR tools working on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

  
  adafruit industries blog — Authority: 434
  Reg shows you how to get AVR tools working on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)! He writes - Building the AVR toolchain by hand also thwarted me somewhere in the building of the avr-binutils package — it doesn’t want to build on my Mac.  As soon as I entered the dependency hell of installing an upgraded gcc to build ...
  5 hours ago

• Googles Chrome and Android operating systems will converge sooner rather than later

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 764
  Filed under: Internet , OS Updates , Google , Open Source Googles co-founder, Sergey Brin, spoke to some reporters yesterday, after the Chrome OS presentation . Citing the common WebKit and Linux code found in both operating systems, he said "Android and Chrome are likely to converge over time." "Were ...
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• GWT 2.0 with Eclipse plugin released!!

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  Google has released a release candidate version of GWT 2.0. They have also released a google eclipse plugin for GWT 2.0 which provides new UIBinder template support.
  5 hours ago

• Untangling some strings …

  
  businessmodel innovation _ design — Authority: 133
  … about the cloud, cloud OSes and open source code – this week Google opened up its Chromium OS , VirtualBox images and all and every good consultant is writing and talking about it. It can boot in seconds (and should be run with solid-state hard drives) … and is supposed to “ live in the cloud ...
  6 hours ago

• In the "Data Path": Dumping the Database

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects sides. Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching is one answer, but that may require major changes to a companys data management environment. In an exclusive interview with DZone, Ari Zilka, the CTO and ...
  6 hours ago

• First Impressions of Google Chrome OS - Screenshots

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  This morning I just installed Google OS Chrome on my Mac OS using Virtual Box. To my surprise, my first impressions are . . .
  6 hours ago

• Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 469
  The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross) Just as the leaks predicted , the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill , which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively change the law at will with little to no oversight. Basically, it ...
  7 hours ago

• The Debate: Free Vs. Paid Content

  
  CMC — Authority: 153
  This entry is part 16 of 16 in the series Conversational Currency Theinternet and social technology has turned the publishing industryupside down and inside out.  We’ve seen 24 of the top 25 newspapers  goout of business. Magazine subscription rates are down and the leaderswithin the industry are struggling ...
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• Whcih is more stable Linux OS between Ubuntu,Mandriva,Opensuseand Fedora

  
  TechEnclave — Authority: 464
  Hello, I have heard that the latest Ubuntu 9.10 has been found with many bugs, dont no about fedora 12 or Opensuse 11.2 and also Mandriva2010 linux. So plase tell me as i ma a novice and only for some time used Ubuntu 9.04 through Wubi install, and not anyo ther linux distro, which among the four is more stable and ...
  11 hours ago

• HOW TO - Programming ATtiny13 with USBtinyISP

  
  adafruit industries blog — Authority: 434
  Lars shows you how to program an ATtiny13 with the Adafruit USBtinyISP - To program the ATtiny13 or other AVR tiny microcontrollers I use the USBtinyISP. It is a diy build programmer, you can buy a package and you only need to solder. The nice thing is that it works with USB and can power the circuit directly. ...
  12 hours ago

• List of Open Source Defect/Issue Tracking Systems

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being “free”, these open source defect tracking systems have many features its expensive counterparts lack.
  12 hours ago

• Split and Export Multiple Audio Files With Audacity [VIDEO]

  
  But You're A Girl.com — Authority: 417
  In this video, I show you how you can export multiple files from a single MP3 using Audacity. Click here to view the embedded video. Instructions from Audacity website: How can I split a long recording into multiple files or CD tracks? Follow these steps to create a separate file for each song or segment ...
  14 hours ago

• Video Recordings of FOSS4G Presentations

  
  Between the Poles — Authority: 130
  The FOSSLC folks have released video recordings of most of the presentations at FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney. Paul Ramseys Keynote The FDO Toolbox GeoREST
  15 hours ago

• Earths Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before [Science]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 898
  newVideoPlayer("/gizmodo-clouds.flv", 500, 375,""); This video shows Earths weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It...
  16 hours ago

• PHP 5.3.1 released for 5 security flaws, 113 bugs

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  The first update to PHP 5.3 is now available providing 5 security fixes in addition a long list of bug fixes to the popular open source dynamic language. PHP 5.3 was released at the end of June, so the 5.3.1 point update has been in the works for five months at this point.
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• Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Intel’s Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL ...
  17 hours ago

• Miranda IM Portable 0.8.10 Released

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 554
  Miranda IM Portable 0.8.10 has been released. Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows which uses very little memory and supports ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC and more. This new release updates Miranda IM to the latest version. Its packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily ...
  18 hours ago

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