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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Original Technorati articles tagged “open source”

• in Technology
  Twitter and Linux: The Open Source Marriage Made in Heaven
  Twitter is powered not by a bloated, profit-driven technology, but rather by an open source system that has been painstakingly refined by people passionate about quality: Linux.
  by csedev / on Sep 1, 2012
• in Business
  Mucker Lab and Mozilla Team-up on Open-Source Startup Accelerator Program
  Mucker Lab and Mozilla's WebFWD partner on joint accelerator program aimed at open source ventures and projects.
  by gsimon / on Jun 30, 2012
• in Technology
  An Open Compute Primer
  The 2012 Open Compute Summit is taking place in San Antonio. Here's a primer on what Open Compute is.
  by gaheath / on May 2, 2012

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• Mandriva Linux: Mageia 3′s out!

  
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  After years of development before it the third release of Linux-distribution Mageia, in which an independent community of enthusiasts is developing a fork of the project Mandriva. Available for download 32 – and 64-bit DVD-assembly (3.7 Gb), the universal CD-assembly (699 MB), minimalistic image for network ...
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• New stable branch of the programming language – Perl 5.18

  
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  After years of development presents a new stable branch of the programming language – Perl 5.18. In preparation for the new release has been changed about 400 thousand lines of code changes affected the 2100 files, developed with the participation of 113 developers. A branch of 5.18 is released under an approved ...
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• Asymptote 2.23

  
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• AngularJS and ngForce: More Fun in the Javascript Playground

  
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• Lessons from Koha in Open Source Project Ownership

  
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• Perl 5.18.0 released

  
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• Using Six Monitors With AMD’s Open-Source Linux Driver

  
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• How could Scala do a merge sort?

  
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• My response to “7 Open Source Projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid)”

  
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