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”

• Back from Blogging Hiatus - Update 3

  
  Tony Bain — Authority: 106
  Image by Nathan Lanier via Flickr Ingres No specific announcements from Ingres other than I think the VectorWise stuff is progressing well. To me Ingres is a bit of a dark horse.  They are open source and doing reasonable revenues.  And they are active in the enterprise market (something MySQL hasn’t ...
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• Freedom for Java

  
  SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs — Authority: 152
  The Java industry is currently going through important changes, and there are many discussions around the openness of Java and the Java Community Process (JCP). To ensure the continued role of Java in driving economic growth, we believe it is essential to transition the stewardship of the language and platform into an ...
  5 hours ago

• Generating Dynamic PDF Using iText

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. The blog covers how to:1. Create PDF using PDF Template and PDF Form2. Appending documents using PdfStamper
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• Plone 3.3.1

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  About Plone A ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server and Python. - Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a a click and run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes. - Plone is easy to ...
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• SFLC tech director finds one new GPL violator every day

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Bradley Kuhn, the technical director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), has published a helpful set of guidelines about the most productive way to respond to a suspected violation of GNUs General Public License (GPL). The guidelines caution against jumping to conclusions and encourages free software ...
  8 hours ago

• Firefox celebrates five years as a Web browser

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 583
  Five years ago today, on November 9, 2004, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 and the Web browser has never looked back. In that five years Firefox has grown from an open source [...]
  9 hours ago

• OpenOfficeMouse promises to be quite a handful

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 708
  WarMouse is to release an 18-button mouse with an analog joystick which the company says supports up to 52 key commands. The OpenOfficeMouse, billed as the first multi-button application mouse designed for a wide variety of software applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and ...
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• Daily Links for Monday, November 9, 2009

  
  Bob Sutor — Authority: 500
  Open Source Ubuntu: the complete beginner’s guide Times Online / Jonathan Richards Ubuntu, if you’re not familiar with it, is one of many varieties of a broader, open-source OS called Linux. It looks and feels a lot like Windows (more or less), but, being very lightweight, it runs very quickly, and – ...
  11 hours ago

• Is Microsoft Experimenting with the Open Source Model?

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 461
  IT News Today: "Most people would believe that the moon exploding would be a much more likely scenario than Microsoft changing its business model."
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• Development Release: DEFT Linux 5

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 461
  Stefano Fratepietro has announced the release of DEFT Linux 5, a Xubuntu-based distribution with a collection of open-source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics: "DEFT Linux 5 is based on the new Xubuntu kernel 2.6.31 and DEFT Extra 2.0 (computer forensic GUI) with the best freeware.... ...
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• Firefox celebrates five years

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  San Francisco, Nov 10 (DPA) The open source internet browser Firefox marked its fifth anniversary Monday, celebrating its rise from an unknown challenger to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to a formidable competitor that has been downloaded over one billion times by 330 million users around the world.“Over the last ...
  12 hours ago

• Oracle: EC has profound misunderstanding of database market

  
  Between the Lines — Authority: 690
  Oracle says today that European regulators have a "profound misunderstanding" of the technologies behind Oracles acquisition of Sun and that there is no evidence of anti-competitive behavior to hold up the acquisition.
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• Mac OS X mega patch covers 58 security vulnerabilities

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 625
  The most serious of the flaws could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of an unpatched system.
  13 hours ago

• Where is the Linux desktop going?

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 514
  Windows 7 gets the headlines, Snow Leopard gets the praise, but the Linux desktop actually seems to be, ever so slightly, growing. read more
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• PHP shell rocks

  
  PHPkitchen — Authority: 98
  I’ve written about this before , but since the interactive mode of PHP (php -a) seems to be broken on OS X, I think it’s worth singing the praises of Jan Kneschke’s  php shell project once again. It’s a piece of cake to install the tool with the PEAR installer, and since I last used it 2 great new features ...
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• Austin Non Profit Camp

  
  Weblogsky — Authority: 114
  Here’s the elevator speech: Austin Non Profit Camp is a free, facilitated and participant driven conference that will be the place in Austin for non profits (and social entrepreneurs) to learn and troubleshoot their technology problems in a supportive, collaborative setting. Here’s where you sign up: ...
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• DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/9

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  As the battle for Skype ends, Oracles antitrust battle continues with new allegations of SAPs interference. Also, the WTO may have a case against blanket internet censorship. Those stories, plus DZones top link for the weekend: "Best Open Source UML tools".
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• Google shifts software value to operations, away from IP

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  Google and Red Hat open-source software because they are increasingly competing on the efficiency of services, which Microsoft and others dont seem to understand.
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• Ciscos Collaboration Strategy - First Look

  
  Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog — Authority: 116
  Blogger: Mike Gotta A first take on Ciscos broad collaboration announcements: Understanding Ciscos Collaboration Strategy (Part1) Understanding Ciscos Collaboration Strategy (Part 2)  Understanding Ciscos Collaboration Strategy (Part 3) Understanding Ciscos Collaboration Strategy (Part 4)
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• Open Source in Ghana

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Last week OEN reported on an open access conference in Ghana. Recently Akokoraaba Adansi Pipim published a lengthy letter to Ghana’s president outlining benefits to embracing open source software for education. From the letter: The current brief seeks to bring home a few take-aways from the lessons of the past ...
  15 hours ago

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