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
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  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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