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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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  • Fast user switching


    TechEnclave — Authority Authority: 508
    I wanted to know if Fast User switching is possible on RED HAT linux? and if yes, please guide me to enable it. I need the above, because if one user locks the system, no one else can login until the user comes back and logs out. I need to have a work around for this so that the user can lock the system but the root ...
    7 hours ago

  • Samsung launches bada, stops the Android infection


    My Philly Network — Authority Authority: 142
    video Samsung launches bada open mobile OS | Electronista . Just when you thought Android was about to take over the mobile world, Samsung pulls a stunt like this. Create your own OS, how dare you! They already had a good widget UI going so to add and market an open sorce operating system is like icing. ...
    8 hours ago

  • Microsoft pulls Windows 7 tool after GPL violation claims


    Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority Authority: 460
    Microsoft has pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store website after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNUs General Public License (GPL).
    8 hours ago

  • JISCPress


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 437
    Tony Hirst has a new post explaining the direction of JISCPress.The design could have implications for future OER platforms. From the post: The platform can also be regarded as republishing – or re-presenting – each section (i.e. page) and each paragraph as an independent entity.
    8 hours ago

  • Google tries to speed up programming with a new language: Go


    Gadget Reviews — Authority Authority: 146
    A team of Googlers just announced a project called Go — it’s a new, experimental programming language that Google is making available as open source at the Go website.The Go team says its big programming frustration has been the slowness of existing programming languages. Go changes that by compiling (i.e., ...
    9 hours ago

  • FOMS and LCA Multimedia Miniconf


    ginger's thoughts — Authority Authority: 106
    If you haven’t proposed a presentation yet, got ahead and register yourself for: FOMS (Foundations of Open Media Software workshop) at http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2010/pmwiki.php/Main/CFP LCA Multimedia Miniconf at http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2010_mmm/pmwiki.php/Main/CallForP It’s already November ...
    10 hours ago

  • Linux introspection and SystemTap dynamic kernel analysis


    Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority Authority: 460
    Modern operating system kernels provide the means for introspection, the ability to peer dynamically within the kernel to understand its behaviors. With this knowledge, you can tune or modify the kernel to avoid failure conditions. Discover an open source infrastructure called SystemTap that provides this dynamic ...
    10 hours ago

  • 10 open source projects worth checking out


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 169
    The open source field is pretty crowded, but certain projects stand above the rest. Jack Wallen introduces 10 open source tools and solutions you don’t want to overlook.
    10 hours ago

  • SheepDog rounds up stray application windows on multi-monitor setups


    Tech Portal - The best technology Portal! — Authority Authority: 169
    Filed under: Utilities , Windows , Open Source , Troubleshooting , Windows x64 It doesnt happen often, but every now and then I receive a customers laptop which just doesnt want to believe its no longer attached to an external monitor. And it never fails - some important app is going to appear in the… ...
    10 hours ago

  • SheepDog rounds up stray application windows on multi-monitor setups


    Download Squad — Authority Authority: 752
    Filed under: Utilities , Windows , Open Source , Troubleshooting , Windows x64 It doesnt happen often, but every now and then I receive a customers laptop which just doesnt want to believe its no longer attached to an external monitor. And it never fails - some important app is going to appear in the ...
    10 hours ago

  • SheepDog rounds up stray application windows on multi-monitor setups


    Tech Portal - The best technology Portal! — Authority Authority: 169
    Filed under: Utilities , Windows , Open Source , Troubleshooting , Windows x64 It doesnt happen often, but every now and then I receive a customers laptop which just doesnt want to believe its no longer attached to an external monitor. And it never fails - some important app is going to appear in the… ...
    10 hours ago

  • “Go” Google’s new open source programming language


    D' Technology Weblog — Authority Authority: 545
    Google released a experimental systems programming language under open source called “ Go ,” that combines development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++. Typical builds feel instantaneous; even large binaries compile in just a few ...
    11 hours ago

  • Darwin Streamer Server – Update to Compile in VS2008-Windows by noknok


    Pro Freelance Projects — Authority Authority: 177
    Complete Patches to Enable Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 to compile in V2008 and run on Windows Vista/2008 Server. ———————————————————– Darwin Streaming Server is an open source Streaming Server published by Apple Computer… (Budget: $250-750, Jobs: C/C++, Cocoa, MacOS, ...
    11 hours ago

  • CouchDB on EC2 in 3 1/2 minutes


    The Disco Blog — Authority Authority: 108
    CouchDB is an open source document oriented database written in Erlang that allows you to model domains in a flexible manner as a self-contained document that contains no schema but, instead, a roughly similar blueprint to other documents. Provisioning a CouchDB instance in the cloud is easier than you think, ...
    12 hours ago

  • webOS Internals releases native IRC client


    PreCentral.net — Authority Authority: 678
    We tend to wax poetic about the developers and their work over at webos-internals here at PreCentral, and its pretty hard not to:  they keep kicking out amazing open source software that enhances the functionality and utility of webOS, from applications like Preware to utilities like the webOS Meta Doctor .  ...
    12 hours ago

  • Samsung to Discard Windows Phone


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 156
    Samsung Electronics, the world’s No. 5 smartphone manufacturer, plans to discard the Microsoft Windows Phone operating system to increase phones on the Android platform and with its own smartphone operating system. Among the 40 kinds of Samsung smartphones that will be released next year, the portion of Windows ...
    12 hours ago

  • Red5 Showcase - Added Video Recorder.


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 156
    Red5 Showcase Below is a list of applications that use Red5. Feel free to add your own! * - Large group online events made easy and productive * - Video Mailing System for personal and business needs * - 2 Way Video Chat - High definition video communication software designed for instant 1 on 1 online ...
    12 hours ago

  • Go: new open source programming language from Google


    Ars Technica — Authority Authority: 756
    Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesnt want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faster compilation? Thats one of the reasons why there are so many programming languages. Creating a compiler is practically a ...
    12 hours ago

  • Saygus VPhone to bring video calls and a bit of chub to Android and Verizon


    Technology Pundit — Authority Authority: 163
    If you know that your personal happiness lies somewhere in the Verizon / Android abyss but neither the Droid nor the Droid Eris are hitting the spot, you might consider trying something completely out of left field. How "left field" are we talking here? Well, for starters, odds are good that youve never heard of a ...
    12 hours ago

  • New Bloggers: adopt-a-lecturer!


    [M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og — Authority Authority: 428
    Dear Planet bloggers: How do you learn how to read and make sense of – and write – good blog posts for an open source project’s planet? We’re in the middle of a POSSE in Singpaore , and some of the attending lecturers have started blogging – here they are describing some confusing issues running Fedora 11 ...
    13 hours ago

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