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”

• 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
  3 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...
  4 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.
  4 hours ago

• 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 ...
  5 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 ...
  6 hours ago

• OpenSUSE 11.2– Incremental Updates, Plenty of Polish

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  With the purchase of SUSE by Novell many feared that the brand would be subsumed into the corporate borg and contaminated with proprietary add-ons. But openSUSE goes its own way, and the result is a sleek, reliable distribution with all the bells and whistles. Paul Ferrill takes it for a spin and reports.
  6 hours ago

• Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday.
  7 hours ago

• From ESB to BPEL - Continuing with the RiftSaw-JBossESB Integration

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  In the previous post to this blog, we looked at orchestrating JBossESB services from a RiftSaw BPEL process. In this post, well look at the other side of the RiftSaw-JBossESB integration; invoking a RiftSaw BPEL process from an ESB service.
  7 hours ago

• New code at /tmp/lab: ss7calc

  
  /tmp/lab — Authority: 113
  You certainly know about ipcalc, this simple but pretty utility that enables people to calculate netmasks and IP addresses notations easily? What about ss7calc ( download )? Well, to start with, SS7 is even more complicated than IP netmasks. SS7 is the network protocol that enable you to send SMS, to receive calls on ...
  8 hours ago

• Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  This document provides instructions and notes on upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (code name "Karmic Koala"), the most recent release of Ubuntu, released on the 29th of October 2009.
  10 hours ago

• aMSN Portable 0.98.1 Released

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 554
  aMSN Portable 0.98.1 has been released. aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app ,so you can chat or video chat with your MSN contacts on the go. This release updates aMSN to the latest version, has an improved launcher and improves Windows 7 ...
  11 hours ago

• Limitation of Liability in Creative Commons

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Rick Stafford has a new post comparing Creative Commons to the GNU license. Stafford notes software licensed using Creative Commons does not have any clause limiting liability. From the post: The issue of liability is not present in the creative commons license – potentially this means that if OER software ...
  11 hours ago

• Vietnam to Use Open Source

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  VietNamNet Bridge is reporting that Vietnam’s Education and Training Ministry (MoET) is moving to open source. From the article: According to the draft, all levels from general schools to universities as well as educational agencies will be encouraged to use open-source software to save copyright fees and curb ...
  11 hours ago

• Open source software for research administration

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 545
  Parry, M. (2009) Business Software, Built by Colleges for Colleges, Challenges Commercial Giants Chronicle of Higher Education , November 15 An article on the latest open source administrative software developed by the Kuali consortium. This is an important development, offering the potential for large savings on ...
  11 hours ago

• PHP 5.3.1 is finally here!

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  A stable version of PHP 5.3.1 is finally here! Download link and links to view the release announcement, key changes and the full changelog within.
  11 hours ago

• DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  More updates today on the closures announcement for JDK 7. Google announced the release of its source code for Chrome OS and the NSA announced that it helped beef up security in Windows 7.
  12 hours ago

• Host Your Own Favorite Music Playlist On the Web With OpenTape

  
  ChaseSagum.com — Authority: 425
  I wrote 2 months ago about the open source mixtape application called OpenTape and had a huge amount of people interested in this new open source application. So because of the large amount of interest I thought I would write more about OpenTape and give you an inside look of what makes it so cool. In case you ...
  12 hours ago

• Xandros Launches Apps2Market

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 552
  Xandros , the company behind the Linux distribution called Xandros OS , has launched a custom application store that will deliver digital content to any kind of Internet-connect device, agnostic of any sort of platform. It’s called “App2Market.” Here’s the scoop and why VARs might want to perk an ear up… ...
  12 hours ago

• Open source Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra PDF Speeds things up

  
  Frugal IT — Authority: 131
  Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad hit another home run: “Adobe has done a lot to improve Reader in recent versions. I’m more than happy to run an open source alternative, however. Sumatra PDF is ridiculously small (a 1.2Mb download), lightweight, and handles the PDFs I throw at it without skipping a beat. ...
  13 hours ago

• Google Chrome OS: First looks, first impressions

  
  Telephone Issues — Authority: 166
  The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It’s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual ...
  13 hours ago

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