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

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open source”

 

• Several new versions of Linux distributions

  
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  New issues of distributions Window Maker Live 2013-06-05, Peppermint OS 4 and Parted Magic 2013_06_14 Window Maker Live 2013-06-05 – Live-distribution based on Debian, which has set a goal to create a user environment, is not overloaded with excesses peculiar to modern desktops. User environment is built on the ...
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• Sony SmartWatch goes open-source, looking for more innovation

  
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  After releasing the first true  smartwatch from a major manufacturer, Sony shows its pioneering skin again by making the project fully open-source. Hoping to attract extra attention and possibly more innovative ideas from independent developers, Sony has granted them opened access. Running on pure Android essence, ...
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• 10 Things We Want in Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

  
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  Ubuntu 13.04 wasnt a big release. Apart from stability improvements, application updates, and performance tweaks, Raring Ringtail didnt get the same amount of attention as Ubuntus previous releases did. That said, the distribution did lay the foundation for a bigger release, which is expected to come out this year ...
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• LEAF 5.0

  
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  LEAF is a secure, feature-rich, customizable embedded Linux network appliance for use in a variety of network topologies. Although it can be used in other ways, its primarily used as a Internet gateway, router, firewall, and wireless access point. Release Notes: Changes from 5.0 release candidate 1 include ...
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• GLFW 3.0

  
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  GLFW is a portable framework for OpenGL application development. It handles operating system specific tasks such OpenGL window management, resolution switching, keyboard, mouse, and joystick input, timer input, creating threads, and more. Release Notes: This release removes deprecated features and adds a new API ...
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• uniclient 0.20130609

  
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  uniclient is an universal TCP client. It connects to a TCP server and executes an Aime program against the server. Release Notes: The dependencies have been updated. Tags: Network, protocols, Interpreters Licenses: GPL
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• StepSim 0.5.7

  
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  StepSim is a lightweight step-based simulation module written in Python. It can do simple real-time simulations of discrete systems. StepSim supports step-by-step simulation or can run until a break condition occurs. Simulations are made up of containers and converters. A container stores a discrete amount of units of ...
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• From Java9 javac will drop support for Java 1.4 and older source code.

  
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  To reduce the maintenance costs of javac, this JEP defines a policy for retiring old -source and -target options. In JDK 8, use of a source or target of 1.5 or earlier will be deprecated and in JDK 9, support for a source or target of 1.5 or earlier will be removed.
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• Ubuntu Touch Apps Now Available In Ubuntu 13.10

  
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  A set of mobile applications Ubuntu Touch now available for test in a desktop build Ubuntu 13.10 In fresh daily test builds of Ubuntu 13.10 there was a possibility of installation of the basic appendices developed within Ubuntu Touch, mobile version of a distribution kit for smartphones and tablets. At present, ...
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• The Rise of the 254Makertrons and Chumabot I

  
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  iHubs Jessica Colaço reports on the nurturing of a maker group, the 254Makertrons. Please stay tuned these folks are awesome: Liz with the Picopter  Photo credit: @whiteafrican As a Mobile and Robotics Tech Evangelist in Kenya, I have been mentoring and working with a group of 4 students from ...
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• Creating RSS Feed Reader and Decorating with Bootstrap.js and CSS

  
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  In this post we will describe our experience of creating a RSS feed reader and showing the RSS content from a local html file. To show the content standardised, we have integrated twitter bootstrap.js in our RSS fead reader content showing page. We have integrated following technologies here - 1> Simple PHP XML ...
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• Red Hat refuses from MySQL in favor of MariaDB

  
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  Red Hat has decided not to use the MySQL in a new version of its corporate distribution RHEL 7, the release of which is expected in the coming year. As described at the ongoing summit in the U.S. Boston Red Hat Summit, a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7  (RHEL) goes on open database MariaDB, and will ...
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• The Smart Citizen Kit Open Environmental Monitoring Platform

  
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  There’s still time to get in on the launch of the Smart Citizen sensor and data platform; their fully-funded Kickstarter ends on Sunday. The Smart Citizen Kit looks to be one of the more polished efforts at building a distributed sensing and data aggregation platform. The kit is a microcontroller […] Read the ...
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• X-Cube 3D Printed Open Source Puzzle Cube: Rubikulous

  
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  Dane Christianson’s X-Cube is not the weirdest , most complex or most sophisticated puzzle cube  I’ve ever seen. But Dane didn’t really want to make the world’s most difficult or intimidating take on the Rubik’s cube. His aim with the X-Cube was to make a fun and relatable product to raise people’s ...
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• Glyn Moody’s PGP Key

  
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  In the light of, er, recent events, I’ve decided to up my crypto game – I now encourage people to use PGP when emailing me. Here’s my public key (also available on public key servers such as http://kerckhoffs.surfnet.nl/): -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) ...
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• A real-time bonanza: Facebook’s Wormhole and Yahoo’s streaming Hadoop

  
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  If you’re into systems that can share data among each other in real time, this has been a good week. On Tuesday, Yahoo open sourced its version of the popular Storm stream-processing software that’s able to run inside Hadoop clusters. Then, on Thursday, Facebook detailed a system called Wormhole that informs ...
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• Best Open Source CSS3 and jQuery Image Captions

  
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  I want to present a small collection of CSS3 and jQuery solutions for making HTML image captions. These solutions vary greatly in their methods and purpose, but all of them are worth consideration.
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• iOS Open Source: Move between views with folding paper effect

  
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  honcheng is the author of PaperFoldGallery, a UI control that displays multiple views in a paginated UIScrollView. The name comes from the animation between views which mimics the appearance of vertically folding and unfolding a piece of paper. Download PaperFoldGallery from github Related posts: iOS Open ...
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• Open source cloud is a Cost Effective Source

  
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  Information technology is the field where there is a tremendous and constant research and the advancement work is going on. After every single minute, you will find a latest device, application or software being launched to customize the need of the consumer hence providing they ease and the exotic experience with ...
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• Scraps vehicle combat game has a Linux release!

  
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  Scraps is an awesome looking and sounding vehicle combat game that involves you building the whole thing! It’s a bit like the multiplayer melee mode in Interstate ’76, except you build your vehicle from the chassis up instead of just bolting on weapons and armour. It’s kind of like how you put stuff together in ...
  3 days ago

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