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”

• Atomic Tanks Portable 4.1 Release

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 543
  PortableApps.com has released Atomic Tanks Portable 4.1 . Atomic Tanks is a game in which you control an overly-powerful tank and attempt to blow up other highly powerful tanks. Players get to select a number of weapons and defensive items and then attack each other in a turn-based manner. This release updates ...
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• Maven 3.x: Paving the desire lines — Part Two

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  In the last entry, Maven 3.x: Paving the desire lines — Part One, I talked about some of the overall goals for Maven 3.x and the process by which we determined what needed to be changed. Today I’m going to start talking about some of the specific changes that have been made, and I’ll start with the way Model ...
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• Test, package .NET apps for Linux with Visual Studio add-in

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 756
  Linux vendor Novell is offering a new commercial add-in for Visual Studio that will allow software developers to test and package .NET applications for Linux without having to leave their Windows development environment. The new tools could potentially help boost the availability of third-party software for Linux. ...
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• Open Source Software Ready for Big Business

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 460
  Open source has moved into a new phase where it is evaluated more on its technical merits than on the community model of software development.
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• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.6 Beta 2 Released by PortableApps.com

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 543
  Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.6 Beta 2 has been released in 15 languages. This is the second beta of the upcoming 3.6 release of the popular Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app that is being built on top of Mozillas Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine, Mozilla Firefox 3.6 ...
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• New Open Source Codec with HD Quality

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 460
  The VoIPToday blog has an article about a new free codec with some pretty impressive statistics - near G711 quality with 16kbps.
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• A High Tech DIY Renaissance

  
  TOYS and GADGETs | News | Reviews | Videos — Authority: 168
  A High Tech DIY Renaissance, a great video by Andy Jordan! Makerbot, NYCR and Adafruit make appearances! From hacker spaces to profitable businesses, tinkering is experiencing a renaissance. WSJs Andy Jordan explores some of the "stuff" people are making with new devices that encourage hacking and creativity. ...
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• A High Tech DIY Renaissance

  
  MAKE Magazine — Authority: 153
  A High Tech DIY Renaissance, a great video by Andy Jordan! Makerbot, NYCR and Adafruit make appearances! From hacker spaces to profitable businesses, tinkering is experiencing a renaissance. WSJs Andy Jordan explores some of the "stuff" people are making with new devices that encourage hacking and creativity. ...
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• Google’s movie showtimes, digitally remastered

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 142
  Did you know you can immediately discover movie times and locations by typing a simple search on Google? For example, search for [where the wild things are] and you’ll see times and places to watch the film, or try [glendale 18 los angeles] to see movies playing at your local theater. You can also click [...]
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• Worlds First video of a giant Stingray

  
  nevertheless — Authority: 423
  Here is one of the rarest giants of the ocean, that has been caught on film for the first time. An underwater BBC camera crew filming recorded of a smalleye stingray swimming off the coast of Mozambique. The smalleye stingray is the largest of all 70 species of stingray, attaining widths of more than 2m. The ...
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• Is Europes love of open source Microsofts best friend?

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 514
  Microsoft has often been pilloried by European governments and regulators who favor open source technology over proprietary software. But Europes love of open source software may be one of Microsofts biggest allies in the companys fight against Oracle. read more
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• Curriki: Open source education materials

  
  Education Futures — Authority: 112
  Open source collaborative content holds the promise of freely distributed high-quality education materials. Developing and sustaining the community to needed accomplish that is the difficult part. Curriki , an online community of over 100,000 educators, learners and experts collectively developing curriculum ...
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• Encouragement

  
  Bread and Circuits — Authority: 124
  To my students working on Processing.js , I wanted to share a video that Ben Fry linked to on Twitter today (if you guys were all on Twitter this would be so much easier, btw).  You don’t have to be able to create things like this yourself: helping to enable the tools that are used to build them is part of ...
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• An Era of Open Source (Part One)

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 442
  Bloggomist: Design in the Blood Technology Opinion Social media has opened up an unprecedented mode of communication where ideas, images, events, inspiration and all kinds of content can spread like wildfire. So it was only a matter of time before the bells went off in the corporate ranks as they woke up to the ...
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• Googlers receive prestigious ITOJUN Service Award

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 142
  Googlers Lorenzo Colitti and Erik Kline have received the ITOJUN Service Award while attending the 76th Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Hiroshima, Japan.The Itojun Service Award honors the memory of Dr. Jun-ichiro “itojun” Hagino, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 37. The friends of itojun and the ...
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• GNOME gets even better

  
  Novell Open PR — Authority: 488
  In this recently posted NetworkWorld podcast Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier speaks with openSUSE booster and GNOME board member Vincent Untz, about the upcoming enhancements to openSUSE 11.2 as well as some of the cool work that the GNOME team is doing to improve functionality and increase usability. Also, get ...
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• Are the Symbian Foundation’s Open-source Plans DOA?

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 800
  “When Nokia announced that it was launching the Symbian Foundation to great fanfare,” writes John Mark Walker on OStatic , “it had within its grasp that rarest of opportunities to move swiftly and become the dominant open-source mobile platform. Alas, just one and a half years later, Nokia and the foundation ...
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• ClamWin Portable 0.95.3 Released

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 543
  ClamWin Portable 0.95.3 has been released. ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app , so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go. In this release, ClamWin has been updated to the latest version. Its packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any ...
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• Daily Links for Wednesday, November 11, 2009

  
  Bob Sutor — Authority: 499
  Open Source Windows 7 on netbooks: Maybe it’s not a Linux killer ComputerWorld / Preston Gralla I’ve frequently written that Windows 7 will kill Linux on netbooks. But given that most Windows 7-equipped netbooks ship with the underwhelming Starter Edition, I may well have been wrong. And new evidence ...
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• GNOME Office: Is it a viable office suite?

  
  Telephone Issues — Authority: 165
  When you think about office suites, two names come to mind: Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. There is a good reason for that – they are the two powerhouses in the field. Of course there are alternatives. For Windows there is Softmaker Office and Lotus Symphony. For the Mac there is iWork. For Linux there is ...
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