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”

• 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 ...
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• 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.
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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 ...
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• 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… ...
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• 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. ...
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• 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 ...
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• How to Install software in Ubuntu

  
  Computer Talks |Fix Problems of your PC — Authority: 118
  A decade ago, installing software in Unix based system was a nightmare. Where you have to compile the source code, build the package and install all by manually. But as at today the GNU/Linux system have evolved a lot and have become more user friendly. New GUIs being developed. Any non-tech user can install and ...
  7 hours ago

• A peek at Google’s Linux distro: Chrome OS

  
  Tightwad Technica — Authority: 126
  Google shareholders got a peek at the much ballyhood OS. Thanks to the inherent openness of the internet, non-shareholders can eavesdrop here . Can Google give Linux the final push onto the desktop to unseat Microsoft? It’s too early to say, but using Google’s deep pockets to promote it at the free price point ...
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• An Introduction to the Symbian Virtual Platform

  
  Symbian Blog — Authority: 566
  Hi, I’m Tyson Key, a college student currently residing somewhere in the north of England. When I’m not studying, I happen to advocate and contribute to open source, and open platforms and enjoy spending time testing and documenting software, and exploring various aspects of low-level operating system and ...
  8 hours ago

• CMS Made Simple Content Management System

  
  Web Hosting Geeks' Blog - News, Trends, Discussions. — Authority: 467
  A man who gave up working in his father’s metal shop to building a good, solid content management system, Ted Kulp has been actively developing and tweaking CMS Made Simple for over five years.  Since its early beginnings, CMS Made Simple has grown from one man to a team of over ten developers who’s passion shows ...
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• Adding new repositories to old distro possible?

  
  TechEnclave — Authority: 464
  Hi all, Its been quite a while since Ive used linux and Im back to using it now :D As of now, Ive installed Linux Mint Celena Gnome edition. I had created an AptOnCD and honestly it saved a LOT of bandwidth and time. As of now, I need to install my NVidia driver and Ive downloaded the latest driver. But ...
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• Fedora 12 Review and Commentary - Linux Critic

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  With todays release of Fedora 12, we were eager to give this new version a try. We decided to do some testing on our new MSI CR-600 Laptop (specs here)
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• Microsoft Proposes OData as de facto Web Data Protocol

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  Microsoft proposes OData as the web data protocol while Google uses GData. Microsoft invites Google to join forces with them in adopting OData. Will they do it?
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• Google Chrome Operating System Previewed – Open Sourced As Chromium OS | IndicThreads

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  Google today opensourced the Google Chrome OS, billed as “an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.” The open source project is Chromium OS.However it isn’t clear if Chrome OS’ dependency on the web will hamper it’s usage by most of the developing and the ...
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• Chrome OS Open Sourced

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 170
  From the official Google blog: "In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS."
  9 hours ago

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