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 IT
  Happy Birthday Apache (Software Foundation)
  The ASF reached an important milestone this year and the celebration is on this week in California
  by pdweinstein / on Nov 3, 2009
• in Technology
  Department of Defense Opens Way Up for Open Source
  The Department of Defense clears up some misconceptions about open source software usage
  by sbullo / on Nov 3, 2009
• in IT
  Drupal Is the CMS of Choice for the White House
  The White House will be utilizing the widely popular Drupal CMS
  by sbullo / on Oct 26, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open source”

• DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/28

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  The European Commission dropped the antitrust investigation of Qualcomm and the creator of the first worm on an iPhone just got hired by a software company. Apache Lucene 3 is now available along with XDEV2.
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• Daily Links for Sunday, November 29, 2009

  
  Bob Sutor — Authority: 421
  Cloud Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make use of “the cloud,” you’ve got to use someone else’s service — Amazon’s EC2, Google’s clouds, and so on. Canonical, through its new edition of Ubuntu Server, has set ...
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• Rebuilding the World

  
  ongoing — Authority: 487
  What happened was that, for reasons which I’ll write about under the Concur.next rubric, I wanted to turn my attention back briefly to Erlang. Which meansthat I needed to fetch & build the latest version. Which ended up costingme three days of Open-source yak shaving. Which had a happy ending and somelessons ...
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• Interview with Google Go team lead Rob Pike

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  The Changelog interviewed Rob Pike from the Google Go team about the new programming language. Rob shares the history of the project and where Google would like to take it.
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• Google Chromium OS Beta Available For Dell Mini 10v Netbooks And More

  
  NetbookBoards.com — Authority: 438
  The Chromium OS has been open-sourced for hardly a week and some industrious tinkerers over at Dell have already delivered a beta version especially designed for the Dell Mini 10v netbook . Here’s how to get it: I have released an USB key image file to: http://linux.dell.com/files/cto. The file name is: ...
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• Archos 5 gets Android Market, Gmail and Maps for that Google-blessed experience

  
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• VNC vs. X11 Forwarding

  
  TechEnclave — Authority: 464
  Folks, Ofcourse this is directed towards those who have played with both. Question being: VNC as we know paints everything from the source server to the remote connection( is this right? ) while X11 client just obeys whatever painting request sent to it from the X11 server, so which is fast? I am planning for a ...
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• Popular Websites Free Clone Scripts

  
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  Are you looking for free clone scripts of popular websites. Just take a look at this following list. Complete free best clone jQuery, Ajax, PHP and MySQL scripts with live previews
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• chumby One hardware docs

  
  adafruit industries blog — Authority: 526
  Bunnie writes - For those of you interested in the chumby One , the schematics and gerbers are now posted on chumby’s wiki in the hardware section . Hopefully, over time some of the hacks we’ve done will be documented on the wiki. Or, you could contribute and document your hacks there as well…it is a ...
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• Psystar owners insane judging from investor forecast report

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 607
  As the legal battle continues between Psystar and Apple, some interesting information has been discovered. During the investigation process, Psystar’s aggressive growth model was revealed showing how out of touch with reality the [...]
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• Archos 5 gets Android Market, Gmail and Maps for that Google-blessed experience

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  Since it’s not a phone and transgresses in all sorts of other Google-pleasing areas, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet hasn’t had a full shot at Android thus far, being relegated to merely the open source aspects of the OS. However, with phones like the Droid out and about and making high-resolution compatibility a ...
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• Samsung to Unveil bada OS on December 8

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 158
  Word’s out that Samsung will be unveiling its fresh OS, bada on December 8, just two weeks after announcing its plans in the software field. The company’s continuously expanding its mobile software offer, since they’ve also launched a Samsung App Store for the Omnia device.An in-house OS means less costs of the ...
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• Archos 5 gets Android Market, Gmail and Maps for that Google-blessed experience

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 169
  Since its not a phone and transgresses in all sorts of other Google-pleasing areas, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet hasnt had a full shot at Android thus far, being relegated to merely the open source aspects of the OS. However, with phones like the Droid out and about and making high-resolution compatibility a must for ...
  10 hours ago

• Archos 5 gets Android Market, Gmail and Maps for that Google-blessed experience

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 169
  Since its not a phone and transgresses in all sorts of other Google-pleasing areas, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet hasnt had a full shot at Android thus far, being relegated to merely the open source aspects of the OS. However, with phones like the Droid out and about and making high-resolution compatibility a must for ...
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• Get the most of your Microsoft Dynamics AX and CRM!

  
  IT EVENT — Authority: 439
  December 3, 2009 Online Event During this 45 minute webinar, we will show you how to improve the quality of the data stored in your Microsoft Dynamics AX and CRM applications by using open source solutions. Event Organizer : Talend & Cimbax Similar Events ORACLE FUSION MIDDLEWARE 11g FORUM – ...
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• Zend framework skelton for newbies to start your project

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  A zend framework base ( #zfbase ) or skelton to start your project . This will help newbies who are looking how zend framework module works, how layouts work etc .The code is ready for you to start the project . No more zf create project . Copy the skelton and start issuing the commands zf create controller or action ...
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• Atomsphere 3.0.0.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Atomsphere is a Java feed library for the Atom 1.0 specification. It is designed to be easy-to-use and comes with an intuitive, developer-friendly API. All objects in the library are serializable, immutable, and thread-safe. It has been fully tested for accuracy. Atomsphere only requires a stax-api implementation to ...
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• Internet DJ Console 0.8.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Internet DJ console is a graphical shoutcast/icecast client that runs under GTK+ and the JACK audio connection kit. In short, it’s an Internet radio app for making a live radio show or podcast. Features include two main media players with a crossfader, a jingle player, microphone signal processing (compressor and ...
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• qsgen 0.2

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  qsgen (the Quick Site Generator) is a static Web site generator. It uses a set of Mako input templates and outputs a static site from those templates. qsgen also has builtin support for code documentation and commenting with highlight generation using Pygments. Changes: Improvements were made to setuptools. Tags: ...
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• Data Crow 3.8.3

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Data Crow is a movie, video, book, image, software, and music cataloger/media manager. Data Crow uses MusicBrainz, Amazon, IMDb, and many other Web services to retrieve the information for you. It is highly customizable, easy to use, and feature rich. It helps you to keep track of your loans, allows you to create ...
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