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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• Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive

  
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  European Commission reaction to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has stoked a tricky debate: can open-source software live up to its populist traditions?
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• Alternative Linux web browsers

  
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  You know Firefox like the back of your hand. You’ve heard tale of Chrome and you know KDE has tried to pawn Konqueror off as their default browser. In the distance you hear Opera calling your name and IE4Lin tries to woo you to the dark side. Browsers, the lot of them. You can’t go about your daily digital ...
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• eLyXer 0.37

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  eLyXer (pronounced elixir) is a LyX to HTML converter. While there are a ton of such projects all over the Web, eLyXer has a clear focus on flexibility and elegant output. LyX is a wonderful text editor that produces beautiful PDF files. Internally, it exports documents to LaTeX, and from there to PDF. Sadly there is ...
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• Long Range ZIP 0.42

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  LRZIP is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files. It uses the combined compression algorithms of zpaq and lzma for maximum compression, lzo for maximum speed, and the long range redundancy reduction of rzip. It is designed to scale with increases with ...
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• Scan Tailor 0.9.7.2

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, despeckling, and others. You give it raw scans and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or a DJVU file. Changes: This release improves ...
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• QComicBook 0.5.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  QComicBook is a viewer for rar, zip, cbr, and cbz format comic book archives containing JPEG or PNG images. Its features include automatic handling of archives, full-screen mode, page scaling, and mouse or keyboard navigation. Changes: True continuous viewing mode was implemented. The ‘Continuous scrolling’ ...
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• napster-dl 0.7

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Napster-dl is an application that allows downloading of napster songs from free.napster.com. Changes: A bug with gzip deflate was fixed to allow searching again. An in-application check for newer versions has been added.
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• cdg2video 0.4

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  cdg2video is a command line tool for converting karaoke CDG+MP3 files to a video. Changes: Updated for the ffmpeg API. Various bugfixes. Tags: Utilities Licenses: GPLv3
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• AutoLaTeX 8.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  AutoLaTeX is a tool for managing small to large sized LaTeX projects. The typical AutoLaTeX input file is simply a series of variable definitions in a Makefile for the project. This Makefile was automatically generated by a provided Perl script. The user can easily perform all required steps to do such tasks as ...
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• Words Generator r70

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  WG is a word generator with several useful options you can use to filter/reduce the output list of words. Changes: Persistent queues. Tags: Word Generator, Password generator Licenses: GPLv3
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• DAVfs Linux file system driver 1.4.5

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  The DAVfs Linux file system driver (a.k.a davfs2) is a Linux file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a disk drive. WebDAV is an extension to HTTP/1.1 that allows remote collaborative authoring of Web resources, defined in RFC 2518. DAVfs allows a remote Web server to be edited using ...
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• A Brief Guide Socket Programming

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 168
  This is a brief but comprehensive guide to Socket Programming in C.
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• Rich Old Men Want Your Internet

  
  zenbullets.com — Authority: 402
  Ok, I’ve calmed down over the Digital Economy Bill a bit now. If you don’t follow my Twitter (and you should, you really should) you may have escaped my incessantly expressed outrage at Lord Mandelson’s old man’s folly which, I am sorry to say, has lost this labour vote in the next election. Labour’s actions ...
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• Only 8 Bugs Stand In The Way Of Chrome For Mac Beta

  
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• Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off

  
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• Chrome OS Running on Another Netbook

  
  Between the Poles — Authority: 128
  It has been reported that an employee of Dell has gotten Chrome OS, which Google released to open source Nov 19 , to run on a Dell Mini 10v netbook.  I blogged earlier that Ed Parsons has Chrome OS running on his Aspire One netbook.
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• Fmod4Perl 0.01

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Fmod4Perl is a Perl extension for the FMOD music and sound effects system. Changes: There are 5 examples rewritten from the original Fmod examples. Tags: Sound/Audio Licenses: LGPL
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• MP3 Diags 1.0.00

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  MP3 Diags finds problems in MP3 files and helps the user fix many of them. It looks at both the audio part (VBR info, quality, normalization) and the tags containing track information (ID3). It has a tag editor, which can download album information (including cover art) from MusicBrainz and Discogs, as well as paste ...
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• sqlamp 0.5.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  sqlamp is an implementation of Materialized Path, an efficient algorithm for working with hierarchical data structures. sqlamp uses (and depends on) SQLAlchemy. Materialized Path is a way to store (and fetch) trees in a relational databases. It is the compromise between Nested Sets and Adjacency Relations in respect ...
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• Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off

  
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  -: Apple Corporate , Open Source More and more information is coming out about Psystar and their legal issues with Apple . Continued here: Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off
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