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”

• Microsoft’s Open Source Party in Montreal

  
  Global Nerdy — Authority: 496
  Here’s a little hint: if you ever get an invitation to a Microsoft party from High Road Communications – they’re Microsoft Canada’s PR firm – accept it. They’re always in great places, have great tapas and drinks and they always invite interesting people. You’re guaranteed to have fun, and that ...
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• Hands-on: Plasma, KWin improve in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 736
  KDE was created with the goal of building a desktop environment for the Linux platform. The modern KDE ecosystem, which spans multiple operating systems and includes a wide range of applications and development frameworks, has a broader mandate and loftier aspirations. In an effort to improve the way that KDE ...
  3 hours ago

• SaVi 1.4.3

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  SaVi is satellite visualization software that lets you create, run, examine, and modify satellite orbits in two and three dimensions. Simulations of Iridium, Globalstar, Galileo, GPS, and other satellite constellations are included. SaVi requires Tcl and Tk on a system with Unix libraries. SaVi works well with the 3D ...
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• dos2unix 3.2

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  dos2unix includes utilities to convert text files with DOS line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa. It is an update of Benjamin Lin’s implementations. Changes: All patches from Red Hat have been included. The makefiles have been updated according GNU standards and support easy installation on Cygwin. ...
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• Traffpro 1.3.3

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  Traffpro is a Linux -based traffic control, traffic accounting, bandwidth shaping, bandwidth management, and network security system with many features. It is a system for network security, reporting, and billing and solves problems related to network traffic control. It controls traffic that is used in various ...
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• How To Build An Open Source FreeNAS Server

  
  All about Linux — Authority: 110
  Now a days, most people have more than one computer at home. If not, then there are a multitude of devices such as - laptop(s), WiFi enabled cell phones, network aware audio & video devices, and game consoles. If that is true for you, then it is a fair guess that you will have your own private store of music, ...
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• Toucan 2.2.1 Released

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 469
  Toucan 2.2.1 has been released. Toucan is a tool for advanced users that allows you to sync, backup and secure files on your portable device. Toucan 2.2.1 is bug fix release for Toucan, including a bug that may have prevented encryption of backups in 2.2.0. Translations have been updated and Catalan has been added. ...
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• Notepad++ Portable 5.6.1 Released

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 469
  Notepad++ Portable 5.6.1 has been released. Its the handy Notepad++ text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but theres nothing to install. This release ...
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• For Vertical Market Smartphone Apps, Is Webkit the "True" Dev Target?

  
  Tech Broiler — Authority: 521
  Googles rich Webkit-based GMail experience in iPhone and Androids mobile web browsers are proof enough that native smarphone apps for many types of applications are no longer needed or should be written for native APIs.
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• PeaZip Portable 2.8.1 Released

  
  PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives — Authority: 469
  PeaZip Portable 2.8.1 has been released. PeaZip Portable is the easy to use PeaZip file archiver packaged as a portable app , so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. This release updates the included PeaZip to the latest ...
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• Bottoms-Up Innovation (Video)

  
  AttentionMax — Authority: 412
  I recently had a fascinating breakfast discussion with my friend Peter Semmelhack , founder and CEO of Bug Labs , on the decay of apprenticeships and grassroots innovation . We were lucky to feature Peter at Clickable’s Interesting Cafe last week, where he led a discussion on open-source hardware and ...
  4 hours ago

• Organize your photos with F-Spot

  
  Computer Talks |Fix Problems of your PC — Authority: 122
  F-Spot is one of the famous photo organizing tools available in many GNU/Linux distributions. It can import photos from your digital camera, organize them, optimize them for the web and finally upload to the web photo gallery like Picasa, Flickr, etc. You can find F-spot by going to through the menu, Application ...
  5 hours ago

• echinus 0.3.9

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  echinus is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm’s source code. It manages windows in tiled, maximized, and floating layouts. It is extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft. It features nice titlebars, multiple desktops, theming support, a simple configuration file, the ability to switch desktops ...
  6 hours ago

• mpc 0.19

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  mpc (Music Player Command) is a command-line tool for interfacing Music Player Daemon (MPD). Its features include bash tab completion and the ability to use the output of other programs as input via piping. Changes: This release adds the "sticker" and "replaygain" commands, implements the %position% format ...
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• PolicyDOC 2.4 Beta

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  PolicyDOC is a Web-based software application for managing corporate policies and procedures, manage policy exceptions, reporting violations, and measuring effectiveness of policies. The system is packaged as VmWare appliance, but can also be installed on a server. Drag and drop can be used to rearrange policy ...
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• UYKFD 1.3

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  UYKFD uses metadata from Last FM’s Web services API to infer relationships between artists. It then uses that information to generate playlists of related tracks. Although development is complete, it must be compiled using a development version of Scala and is therefore only suitable for expert users. Changes: ...
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• ADV_NET 1.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  ADV_NET is a PHP class for communication between NMAP and PHP. It contains a few functions to allow your application to obtain various data from the LAN by pinging hosts, converting IP addresses to MAC addresses, scanning ports, and using rDNS. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement. Licenses: BSD Revised
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• Task Coach 0.77.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do consist of several activities. Task Coach is ...
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• adv-samba 1.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 162
  adv-samba is a PHP class to batch audit SAMBA resources on remote hosts or large LANs. It’s a very handy tool during network audits. For example, imagine a LAN with 500 workstations. You want to find any illegal MP3s on company machines. With this tool, you recursively dump the share directory structure. It works ...
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• DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/5

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  A false alarm about the Oracle-Sun deal came from the New York Post recently and there was much alarm over Bing.com going down for almost an hour. The top link on DZone gives you an inside look at JavaFX 1.3.
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