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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• ocre 0.033

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  OCRE is an optical character recognition (OCR) system that reads an image file and writes ASCII or Unicode characters. Changes: Some errors have been corrected and some code cleaning was done. Release Tags: minor bug fixes Tags: Office/Business, Text Processing Licenses: GPL
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• PathVisio 2.0.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  PathVisio is a bioinformatics tool that lets you do everything with biological pathway diagrams. PathVisio helps you organize biological information and lets you present or publish that information easily. You can create and draw pathways, export them to many image formats, annotate them with links to online ...
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• Dare-Dare 0.2

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  Dare-Dare stands for Document Ajax Reader Extension. It’s a full JavaScript online document reader. It uses neither Flash nor any closed sources. Changes: Support was added for the Opera and Chromium browsers. A minor bug was fixed. Release Tags: 0 Base, Major, Stable Tags: Web app, Web Application, ...
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• FreeGuide TV Guide 0.10.12

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  FreeGuide is a TV guide program. It allows you to find programs you are interested in quickly, and ignore the rest. Changes: Two bugs were fixed. The personalized guide and programme info box now use the correct font. This should allow workarounds for some of the font issues some people saw on Vista. Performance ...
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• Thread Safe Template Library 1.3.3

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  Thread Safe Template Library (TSTL) is a C++ library that provides thread-safe storage data structures without global locking. It includes classes for maps based on a non-binary extensible hashing tree for very fast access, a pipe, a queue, a timercache, a limitcache, and a fast writer multiple reader guard (or ...
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• GNU TeXmacs 1.0.7.3

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be ...
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• iLAP 1.3.2

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  iLAP (Laboratory data management, Analysis, and Protocol development) is a workflow-driven information management system specifically designed to create and manage experimental protocols and to analyze and share laboratory data. The system combines experimental protocol development, wizard-based data acquisition, and ...
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• AFD 1.4.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  AFD is a program to automatically distribute files either locally or to remote hosts. The files are distributed by using FTP or SMTP, and can be sent in parallel and with priority. It provides a GUI to monitor and control the distribution and extensive logging of all activities. Changes: A new command line tool was ...
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• Distribution Release: Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop 2.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  Ulteo, an open-source enterprise established by Mandrake Linux founder Gaël Duval, has released Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop (OVD) 2.0.
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• Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200911-05 (Normal): wireshark

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 157
  Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities…
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• 5 of the Best Free and Open Source CD/DVD Writing Software for Linux

  
  TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL — Authority: 509
  Most of us still rely on CD/DVD writing software applications for file backup, data transfer and distribution, and for ripping audio and video content among other things. If you are using Linux, there are plenty of optical disc-authoring programs to choose from. Here are some of those that I like: Brasero ...
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• What Can 1,000 Post Get You?

  
  CMC — Authority: 154
  This entry is part 38 of 38 in the series Social Media Thisis post number 1,000 for this blog.  That equals over 500,000 wordsdiscussing  many topics but all central to the disruptive nature ofsocial technology. Writing 1,000 articles is like launching 1,000 hot air balloons. Some get attention and some ...
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• xwords – opensource Scrabble game for windows mobile

  
  pocket pc software, windows mobile freeware, wm6.5 news — Authority: 513
  xwords xwords Crosswords is a free, open source implementation of the rules of Scrabble™ for handhelds. Some of the new features of this version is Support for localization Support for play between networked devices (e.g. smartphones) Support for dictionaries built from Unicode wordlists Download this ...
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• Afghanistan: Mullah Omar’s Message “End the Occupation” (25 November)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 623
  UPDATE 0900 GMT: President Hamid Karzai has said in his Eid al-Adha message , “I once again call upon our brothers, the Taliban, Hezb-e-Islami and everyone who is away from their land and who have taken up arms against their soil, to come back to their country for peace, stability, prosperity so that we Afghan ...
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• 20 Promising Open Source PHP Content Management Systems(CMS)

  
  TuVinhSoft .,JSC — Authority: 435
  Content Management System, or CMS is an application used to manage news easily so that users can publish, edit and delete articles from the back-end admin system. HTML and other scripting language are not necessary to operate a CMS, though having them will add more advantages.Since we had looked into 22 open source ...
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• ZWICK SOLUTIONS

  
  Web Design and Marketing Resource — Authority: 124
  Ausin Soft Solutions is essentially directed during upon condition that IT solutions as well as consultancy services to tiny businesses in as well as around Melbourne. The services would embody web design , hosting as well as e-commerce solutions, networking solutions as well as consultancy services for tiny ...
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• Taking an open source approach to hardware…

  
  TOYS and GADGETs | News | Reviews | Videos — Authority: 171
  Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware @ WSJ.com ... The main producer of the Arduino is Smart Projects Snc, based in the tiny town of Scarmagno, Italy. This year, the two-person firm is on track to sell at least 60,000 of the microcontrollers, which retail for at least $30 a piece, up from 34,000 last year. ...
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• Taking an open source approach to hardware...

  
  MAKE Magazine — Authority: 699
  Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware @ WSJ.com ... The main producer of the Arduino is Smart Projects Snc, based in the tiny town of Scarmagno, Italy. This year, the two-person firm is on track to sell at least 60,000 of the microcontrollers, which retail for at least $30 a piece, up from 34,000 last year. ...
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• BLACK FRIDAY SALE AT ADAFRUIT! 10% off Adafruit kits - great gifts for kids and adults - give the gift of learning, engineering and science!

  
  adafruit industries blog — Authority: 527
  Today is known as black Friday, it’s some type of Goth holiday, we think - so we decided to do a sale here on Adafruit. The following kits and items (below) are on sale 10% off - you also still get quantity discounting too! To get 10% off use the code BLACK on check out from now until Sunday 11:59pm ET ...
  9 hours ago

• Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware @ WSJ.com

  
  adafruit industries blog — Authority: 527
  Here it is folks, open source hardware in the WSJ! Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware @ WSJ.com … The main producer of the Arduino is Smart Projects Snc, based in the tiny town of Scarmagno, Italy. This year, the two-person firm is on track to sell at least 60,000 of the microcontrollers, which retail for ...
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