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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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  • Sixth Sense wordt open source


    ViNT // Vision - Inspiration - Navigation - Trends — Authority Authority: 148
    In November gaf Pranav Mistry op TED India een update over het Sixth Sense project van MIT. Daar vertelde hij dat de technologie achter het zesde zintuig wellicht in december al geopensourcet zal worden. Prachtig kerstkado voor de geeks die eens wat anders willen bouwen dan een iPhone app. Benieuwd welke vlucht het ...
    1 hour ago

  • Kismet 2009-11-R1


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 158
    Kismet is an 802.11 layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic (device drivers permitting). It identifies networks by passively collecting ...
    2 hours ago

  • Geneious 4.8.2


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 158
    Geneious is an integrated bioinformatics tool suite for manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as linear and circular DNA sequences, proteins, phylogenies, chromatograms, 3D structure information, publications, etc. It features sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis, restriction ...
    2 hours ago

  • Linux Mint 8 has been released - Linux Critic


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 168
    Linux Mint 8 Helena has been released. This extraordinarily popular Ubuntu based variant includes a number of improvements and enhancements that make the Ubuntu experience more complete.
    3 hours ago

  • 26 Open Source SQL Clients


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 168
    Sql clients are essential tools required by every developer. They help developer to easily execute SQL queries on any database. They are also very important for troubleshooting any database related issue.
    3 hours ago

  • Google Chromium OS: Google Chrome OS News Round-Up, What’s Your Take?


    Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority Authority: 456
    As soon as Google goes official with the Chrome OS, every tech people I know jumped into it. Each with his own comments, impressions and ideas on what was made available by Google so far. You’ve read about our earlier report as well as Google’s own announcement . Now here’s what other bright minds in the tech ...
    4 hours ago

  • Rainbows! 0.7.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 158
    Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients. For Rack applications not heavily bound by slow external network dependencies, consider Unicorn instead as it simpler and easier to debug. ...
    4 hours ago

  • ultimix 1.5.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 158
    Ultimix is a framework for developing Web-based applications (CMS, portals, ERPs, etc.) It includes multi-language support, permits management, an MVC mini framework, package structure, a template engine, a Javascript library, a simple GUI library, a caching system, and CAPTCHA. Changes: The packages ...
    4 hours ago

  • DBsight 2.2.3


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 158
    DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It features a built-in database crawler that follows user-defined SQL, incremental indexing, configurable result ranking, highlighted search results (like Google), and categorized result ...
    4 hours ago

  • di 4.18


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 158
    di is a disk information utility, displaying everything that df does and more. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be highly portable across many platforms. Changes: Code cleanup. The default configuration method has been changed to ...
    4 hours ago

  • Latest Open-Xchange Makes Webmail and Social Network Integration Easy


    Web Hosting Blog — Authority Authority: 156
    (The Hosting News) – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, a leading provider of open source groupware, today announced enhancements that simplify the aggregation of e-mail and contact information, giving users access to their data anywhere, anytime and with any device.To improve ease-of use, the latest enhancements ...
    5 hours ago

  • Dot Matrix Clock – The Open Source Display


    Embedded projects from around the web — Authority Authority: 130
    Recently, the open source becomes increasingly popular, especially among the home hobbyists. Many people regarding the open source as the genuine approach to the design, development and distribution of software, which is offering practically accessibility to software’s source code. Some people even consider ...
    6 hours ago

  • Latest News – dBusinessNews.com


    OnlyDedicatedServers.com — Authority Authority: 147
    Latest News – dBusinessNews.com ONE Bio Inks Deal With Major Chinese Nutraceutical Distributor MIAMI – ONE Bio, Corp. , an innovative company utilizing Center City Direct, CBS Stations Launch Philadelphia’s First Digital Newsstands PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia becomes first city Choosing the Right ...
    6 hours ago

  • Solr Faceting Revealed


    Beyond Search — Authority Authority: 583
    If you are contemplating Solr for an enterprise search solution, you will want to navigate to “ Faceting in Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server ”. The article provides useful information, clear comments, and code samples. If you want more, you can buy David Smiley’s and Eric Pugh’s book Solr 1.4 Enterprise ...
    6 hours ago

  • Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive


    Mozilla in Asia — Authority Authority: 92
    While this is ostensibly about European Union politics, I wanted to make sure that Planet readers saw this interesting Ashlee Vance story in the NY Times on business models in open source software that mentions Mozilla and Firefox. Open-source software has thrived and played a prominent role in the building of the ...
    6 hours ago

  • PCE 0.2.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 158
    PCE is an IBM PC 5150 emulator. It emulates most of the hardware of an IBM PC 5150. The emulation is complete enough to boot DOS and run most DOS applications. Changes: New features are VGA support, emulation of the IBM PC cassette interface, a new Macintosh Plus emulator, and many smaller changes. Tags: ...
    7 hours ago

  • Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive


    NYT > Theater — Authority Authority: 905
    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?
    8 hours ago

  • Alternative Linux web browsers


    Telephone Issues — Authority Authority: 165
    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 ...
    9 hours ago

  • eLyXer 0.37


    Open Source Pixels — Authority 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 ...
    9 hours ago

  • Long Range ZIP 0.42


    Open Source Pixels — Authority 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 ...
    9 hours ago

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