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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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  • Greetings from Sunny Sweden


    Open Source Ecology — Authority Authority: 408
    Sweden is not exactly sunny at this time of the year, but the Nordic people are lovely. So far, it’s been a mind-blowing experience at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS 2009) . One cannot explain it in writing – not even by watching the videos – because it is the atmosphere of freedom and ...
    2 hours ago

  • Bookmark sync arrives on Chromium for Mac – here’s how to make it work


    Technology Info — Authority Authority: 158
    Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Google, Open Source, BrowsersWe’ve told you before about Google Chrome’s slick new bookmark syncing feature, available in the Windows beta version of Chrome 4. It automatically keeps your bookmarks synced across multiple Chrome installations, using your Google Account. Well, this ...
    3 hours ago

  • Kerala adopts free and open source software in education


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 710
    Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 15 (IANS) The Kerala government has adopted free and open source software (FOSS) for the state education department and for e-governance.The curriculum department Saturday has also recommended extension of FOSS to higher secondary schools. The implementation of this has been entrusted to the ...
    4 hours ago

  • Android 2.0 Source Released, Already Ported To The G1


    Technology Info — Authority Authority: 158
    While Android 2.0 has been floating around on Motorola DROIDs for over a week now, one important chunk of it has been under lock-and-key: the source. Even amongst manufacturing partners, we’re told, Google hasn’t been completely open; outside of Motorola (and more recently, HTC), most of the other handset ...
    5 hours ago

  • IEEE Spectrum: If You Build It, Santa Will Come


    adafruit industries blog — Authority Authority: 504
    Drawdio is in IEEE Spectrum’s “If You Build It, Santa Will Come” - thx Erico ! This is part of IEEE Spectrum’s Special Report on IEEE SPECTRUM’S 2009 Holiday Gift Guide . What better way to introduce a young person to the joys of engineering than by giving a gift that you construct together? I tested ...
    5 hours ago

  • Tellico 2.1 Available


    Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority Authority: 460
    Tellico is an open source collections manager that you can use to organize your music CD collection, video collection, book collection, and pretty much any other type of collection.
    6 hours ago

  • Apple gets victory in Psystar case


    Computerworld Blogs — Authority Authority: 488
    A judge ruled today agrred with Apples  in its copyright-infringement case against Psystar, the unauthorized seller of Mac clones running Mac OS X. read more
    7 hours ago

  • Installing KDE 4.3.2 on Ubuntu


    Telephone Issues — Authority Authority: 165
    KDE is not a desktop that should be overlooked. Not only did it completely redefine itself upon the launch of 4.x, it has added features that have made it unique in the land of desktops. But because KDE completely re-invented itself at version 4 it’s almost as if you have to consider this a completely new desktop. ...
    10 hours ago

  • It’s Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC


    Rob Conery — Authority Authority: 396
    I had dreams of this when I joined Microsoft a few years back – that SubSonic would be the database juice in the ASP.NET MVC story. Or if not the juice then the ActiveCherryOnTop. The pieces didn’t quite fall into place, though I tried many a time. The issues that I faced were pretty simple – everything I ...
    11 hours ago

  • Distro Review: Mandriva One 2010


    Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority Authority: 460
    Adventures In Open Source: Today I’d like to take a look at a newly released distribution, Mandriva 2010. In the past I’ve found it to be a well accomplished and easy to use desktop distro, even if the last release wasn’t quite as stellar as I’d hoped. How would this version stack up? Let’s find out.
    11 hours ago

  • Stay Ahead of The Ensuing Telecom Transformation


    Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com — Authority Authority: 476
    We are in the midst of a violent transformation of our communications networks which involves an immense amount of control being wrestled away from carriers and given to developers and end-users. Visit the iTunes App store or check out what is happening with free turn-by-turn GPS on an Android 2.0 device to get an ...
    12 hours ago

  • LinuxMint : Helena ! The beauty is coming


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 157
    LinuxMint8 RC1 out this , this beta release comes with new features and improvements, My first impression when I first installed Helena RC1 was that the team of LinuxMint are really doing a great Job,see also LinuxMint8 RC1 Video tours
    12 hours ago

  • Apple Scores Massive Win in Psystar Case


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 157
    As Murphy’s Law dictates, this news was destined to come while I’m down and out with the flu, while being miserable on the couch. Dragged my bum to the computer for this one (my iPhone alerted me, oh the irony): Apple has scored a major win in its case against Psystar. Judge William Alsup more or less agreed ...
    13 hours ago

  • Microsoft Roundup: Bugs, Holes, Patents and GPL Violations


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 157
    Thom’s down with flu, so to avoid moving a lot of interesting news to pg.2, I am creating a combined item here covering a number of Microsoft related news items submitted to us.
    13 hours ago

  • SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 157
    Google isn’t content with providing us with fast search and a fast browser: we need a faster protocol between servers and browsers. The search giant would like us to start forgetting about HTTP:// and learn to love SPDY://. Ars takes a look at the proposal as well as its strengths and weaknesses.
    13 hours ago

  • Lenovo’s Smartbook: The Company Can Still Back Linux


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 157
    I’m surprised that more people in the Linux community aren’t talking about Lenovo’s smartbook, which it announced yesterday. Powered by a Qualcomm ARM Snapdragon processor and sold by AT&T, the new smartbook is Linux -based. Lenovo has had an up and down relationship with supporting Linux , and ...
    14 hours ago

  • Peng’s links for Saturday, 14 November


    I'm Just an Avatar — Authority Authority: 460
    That’s right, I’m finally getting another links post written. I’m sorry it took so long. I’ve been trying to run down some bugs, and when I haven’t been on bug hunts things have been simply crazy here in Boston. I’ve got a couple of things from early this month, but I ended up dropping some of the ...
    15 hours ago

  • shipments of the Nokia N900, Nokia’s latest mobile computer based on open source Maemo 5 software, have now started


    Electronic Industry News — Authority Authority: 484
    The Nokia N900 shipments have started E spoo, Finland – The shipments of the Nokia N900, Nokia’s latest mobile computer based on open source Maemo 5 software, have now started. The Nokia N900 will be available in retail stores in November with an estimated retail price of EUR 500, excluding sales taxes ...
    17 hours ago

  • Difference Between Free and Open Tools


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 437
    Michael Hanley has a new post on the difference between free and open tools. From the post: My view is that both categories of software enable me to meet my objective of developing courseware. Being of a practical disposition, I don’t really suffer an ethical dilemma in combining a range of tools if they assist ...
    18 hours ago

  • Why I’m Done with Linux as a Desktop OS


    Skatterbrainz Blog — Authority Authority: 472
    Linux was cool for a long time.  I started with Slackware distros back in 1998, no X windowing, just CLI.  That was fine because, at that time, it handled mutli-tasking pretty well and it ran on old hardware with meager resources. But times have changed.  Gnome and KDE have evolved to chase OSX and Windows with ...
    18 hours ago

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