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	Open Software Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Open Software Foundation (OSF) was an organization founded in 1988 to create an open standard for an implementation of the Unix operating system.
		OSF's standard Unix implementation was known as OSF/1 and was first released in 1990.
		In February 1996 the new OSF merged with X/Open to become The Open Group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_Software_Foundation (432 words)

	open knowledge trail/open source software - The Open Knowledge Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The decision was taken to replace the term 'free' with 'open source' because of the ambiguity of 'free' (free as in free speech not as in free beer) and the anti-commercial connotations it held, but it ended up causing a mild philosophical schism.
		Free software advocates prefer to stress the freedom to modify and redistribute software, and operate a stricter license (so that all free software is open source, but not vice versa), while open source advocates say the essential element is unrestricted access to the source code.
		It is important to recognise, however, that both open and proprietary software may be distributed at a cost or for free, and that some open source software is distributed free for the same commercial reasons as proprietary software.
	www.okfn.org /open_knowledge_trail/open_source_software (674 words)

	Addamax Corporation v. Open Software Foundation, Inc., 888 F. Supp 274 (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		OSF membership is open to corporations, non-profits, academic institutions, governmental agencies, and "other business entities." (Defendants' Memorandum in Support, Appendix III, Tab 2, By-Laws of Open Software Foundation, Inc., Article 3).
		OSF's statement of purpose indicates that the organization was formed to "undertake cooperative research, experimentation and development activities...
		OSF's gathered technology for the OS-1 system through a competitive bidding process called a Request for Technology, or "RFT." Companies specializing in a particular area were informed of the process and encouraged to submit bids.
	www.consortiuminfo.org /antitrust/ados.php (6485 words)

	Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » Why open geodata in an open source software foundation? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I was lucky enough to be able to attend the pre-OSCON meeting of FLOSS Foundations - a group of people too-intimately involved in the management of free and open source software foundations - representing OSGeo.
		It was started when Autodesk decided for strategic reasons that the future of their web mapping software was in Open Source; they approached the Open Source GIS community, which had been thinking about starting a foundation for awhile, and offered the use of their formidable marketing machine.
		Open source, open standards and open data are in this worldview a kind of triad, mutually reinforcing; without really planning it, an open-source-like development process is growing around peoples’ needs for data standards, in particular.
	blog.okfn.org /2006/08/01/geodata_in_open_source_foundation (1097 words)

	OSF - Open Software Foundation, Operation System Function
		Open Software Foundation is not the only word formed from OSF.
		A group of software vendors and users who are engaged in all areas of open systems technology.
		A consortium of software vendors formed for the purpose of developing and marketing widely compatible UNIX systems based on a common set of features.
	www.auditmypc.com /acronym/OSF.asp (287 words)

	What is open source? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: open-source
		Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI's Open Source Definition.
		The idea is very similar to that behind free software and the copyleft concept of the Free Software Foundation.
		Open Source is the result of a long-time movement toward software that is developed and improved by a group of volunteers cooperating together on a network.
	searchopensource.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid39_gci212709,00.html (558 words)

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		Unix is a very popular operating system for larger computers, and security software is a component that can be used with the operating system to restrict outside access to sensitive information and to restrict a particular user to information consistent with that user's security classification.
		Nothing prevented OSF "sponsors" (the founding members of OSF) or "members" (a great many other companies) from using Addamax security software for their own programs; and OSF sponsors and members were not the only potential buyers of Addamax's program.
		While the OSF sponsors and members were free to purchase B-1 security programs from anyone they wanted on an individual basis, Addamax claims that winning the OSF-1 sale would have amounted to a valuable OSF endorsement, spurring other sales.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=1st&navby=case&no=971807v2&exact=1 (3513 words)

	Open Channel Foundation: Welcome
		Engineering Software has developed a spreadsheet (Energy Conversion with Plots Spreadsheet) that quickly, easily and reliably calculates thermodynamic and transport properties of a few gaseous, liquid and solid species, analyzes power cycles, power cycle components/processes and compressible flow.
		Engineering Software has developed a spreadsheet (Energy Conversion Spreadsheet) that quickly, easily and reliably calculates thermodynamic and transport properties of a few gaseous, liquid and solid species, and also analyzes power cycles, power cycle components/processes and compressible flow.
		The NetEmulator is a Linux based collection of Open Source software programs that enable a PC, or a cluster of PC's, to emulate a wireless network in which links have limited capacity and packets get lost and delayed.
	www.openchannelfoundation.org (427 words)

	Free (= Open Source) Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is free, or, more to the point, open source, like the excellent GNU software from the Free Software Foundation.
		Open source is quickly becoming the mainstream, as evidenced by the January 2000 GartnerGroup's research note
		If you would like to use the code in a non-free (i.e., closed-source) software or you are not happy with the copyleft for another reason, please feel free to contact me and I am sure we will be able to find some agreeable terms.
	www.podval.org /~sds/software.html (573 words)

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		How the Open Software Foundation was formed o Formed in the late 1980's o Primary members IBM, HP, DEC, and Bull.
		How the Open Software Foundation acquires and distributes technology OSF wanted to bring products quickly to market (via their members) so they wanted to standardize on existing technology rather than invent new technology.
		OSF/1 Operating System The first product which OSF began to work on is their base operating system OSF/1.
	www.netfact.com /crs/papers/talks/osf/osf.doc (709 words)

	FSF - The Free Software Foundation
		The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs.
		Read more about free software in our essays section, in the philosophy section of gnu.org, and in the pages of the independently published Free Software Magazine.
		The Free Software Directory was started in September 1999 to catalog all useful free software that runs under free operating systems.
	www.fsf.org (622 words)

	Open Foundation
		Open source software offers a tremendous opportunity to reduce costs, decrease time to market, increase scalability and reduce risk.
		Knowledge, experience and discipline are required to successfully utilize open source software and extract its value.
		Open Foundation exists to provide the knowledge, experience and discipline that allows organizations to capitalize on the benefits inherent in open source software
	www.openfoundation.com (113 words)

	Learn More about Sun's Open Source Initiatives
		Jini technology is an open software architecture that enables Java dynamic networking for building distributed systems that are highly adaptive to change.
		Open MPI is an open source implementation of MPI (Messaging Passing Interface) standard, a software library that is widely used in the creation of parallel, distributed high performance computing (HPC) applications.
		Sun is an active, contributing member of the Open MPI community, with its entire MPI engineering team working collaboratively to produce a high-quality, optimized, multi- platform implementation of MPI.
	www.sun.com /software/opensource/learnmore.jsp (959 words)

	The UNIX System -- History and Timeline -- UNIX History
		Open systems were those that would meet agreed specifications or standards.
		Open systems, they declared, would save on costs, attract a wider portfolio of applications and competition on equal terms.
		The Open Source movement is building on this stable foundation and is creating a resurgence of enthusiasm for the UNIX philosophy.
	www.unix-systems.org /what_is_unix/history_timeline.html (1743 words)

	What is Open Software Foundation? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: OSF
		- The Open Software Foundation (OSF) was a pioneer industry-sponsored organization whose purpose was to foster, identify, and, in some cases, develop software technologies that could serve as industry and perhaps eventually national and international standards.
		OSF developed a widely-implemented cross-platform industry-standard for distributed computing, the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).
		OSF has been incorporated into The Open Group.
	searchopensource.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid39_gci214213,00.html (215 words)

	Free Software Resources
		The Open Software Foundation hosts the free (as in free speech) software.
		For software development, Tigris has a number of useful projects, including ArgoUML, A UML tool for software design and documentation, Subversion, a replacement for CVS (the traditional source code repository for open source projects) and ReadySET a set of XHTML/CSS templates for project documentation.
		Open source C/C++ compilers include Open Watcom and gcc supplied with GnuWin32 and Cygwin.
	www.technicat.com /open (489 words)

	The GNU Operating system - the GNU project - Free Software Foundation - Free as in Freedom - GNU/Linux
		Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
		The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Project.
		If you use Free Software in your business, you can also consider corporate patronage or a deluxe distribution of GNU software as a way to support the FSF.
	www.gnu.org (711 words)

	Open Source Initiative OSI - Python Software Foundation License:Licensing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Following the release of Python 1.6, and after Guido van Rossum left CNRI to work with commercial software developers, it became clear that the ability to use Python with software available under the GNU Public License (GPL) was very desirable.
		This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Python Software Foundation ("PSF"), and the Individual or Organization ("Licensee") accessing and otherwise using Python 2.1.1 software in source or binary form and its associated documentation.
		By copying, installing or otherwise using the software, Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License Agreement.
	www.opensource.org /licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.html (1373 words)

	Open Source software
		Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
		The OSI considers the existing software distribution licenses used by GNU, BSD (a widely-distributed version of UNIX), X Consortium, and Artistic to be conformant with the Open Source Definition.
		The open source movement has gained momentum in the latter half of 1998 as commercial enterprises have begun to consider Linux as an open alternative to Windows 9x/NT.
	dag.wieers.com /eindwerk/html/node108.html (316 words)

	TEXAS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
		The Texas Open Source Software (TOSS) Foundation is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to advance the use of non-proprietary, cost-effective software at all levels, in the public and the private sectors.
		Our aim is to aminorate the cost of operating and maintaining computer systems by providing free, albeit copyrighted, software that any computer user or organization in Texas should have at their disposal.
		Open Source software is being deployed, the Foundation also helps users with hardware acquisitions and technical support.
	tossfoundation.org (815 words)

	Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		The Directory is actively maintained by the Free Software Foundation and includes links to program home pages when they are available.
		Finally, here is a short list of Free Software for Microsoft Windows, for the Windows user who is curious about Free Software but isn't ready to use a Free operating system (yet ;).
		Our three CD-ROM sets include source code for all GNU software, GNU compiler tools executables for ten common platforms, and a larger selection of executables for Intel-Microsoft platforms.
	www.gnu.org /software/software.html (452 words)

	Abacus OpenSource Software Foundation
		The Abacus OpenSource Foundation is a consortium of US and European companies whose ideals are to promote commercial viability via open source software.
		We chose open source as our method of distribution in order to promote interchange between our users/customers and the consortium behind our products.
		ABACUS software is a one-stop solution for SMEs that comprises order processing/PPS, accounting, cost accounting, wage accounting, human resources management, fixed-asset accounting, performance and project accounting, and address management.Implementation of the software and support is performed by experienced distribution partners.
	www.openabacus.org /aboutus.html (219 words)

	Amid praise and catcalls, DCE comes into the open - the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These assertions are not without foundation -- the Distributed Computing Environment RPC is based on one formulated in the 1980s by the now-departed Apollo Computer Inc., which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co., Cupertino, Calif., in 1989.
		Be it Sun's or OSF's, the remote procedure call is not strange to programmers, being similar to a sub-routine call.
		Still, only a relative handful of programmers have experience writing software for communications, or with organizing program threads that are initiated while remote calls are being completed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n3_v14/ai_15061427 (817 words)

	"SPI at the Open Software Foundation" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Open Software Foundation is an industry consortium with the mission to develop portable open-system software offerings.
		OSF is responsible for Motif, the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), and OSF/1 - an industry standard open operating system.
		OSF/1 is a large, complex software product, consisting of over 2 million lines of source code.
	home.earthlink.net /~qsmgmt/OSF-SPI.html (267 words)

	REBIRTH OF THE OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION - Computer Business Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Open Software Foundation claimed that the reorganisation leaves its 400 existing members "unaffected." As part of the reorganisation, X/Open Co Ltd chief Geoff Morris and Open Software Foundation president David Tory will sit on each other's board in an ex officio capacity.
		Tory reckons that the legal entity that is the Software Foundation, regardless of the name it trades under in future, remains in existence, with only a few of its byelaws altered, and that the suit will have to take its normal course.
		The Open Software Foundation's first task will be to look at what's there and what's missing, to find out which of the existing technologies will continue and how the Common Open Software Environment work can be accommodated.
	cbronline.com /article_cg.asp?guid=7C3B9CBF-00D4-4D84-A396-5980DE6D41FF (1007 words)

	Western Metal Supply Open Software Foundation
		Western Metal Supply (WMS) is a not-for-profit open source foundation of software vendors and end-users.
		The foundation is focused on providing software developers, vendors and customers open source infrastructure software to build interoperable, enterprise-wide management tools and applications based on the latest innovative technology.
		Join the world's leading open source foundation for IT infrastructure management.
	www.westernmetalsupply.org (129 words)

	The Apache Software Foundation Brings Open-Source Software Conference to Europe
		The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced ApacheCon Europe 2000, the first European conference and exhibit for Apache-related and open-source software, will take place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London on 23-25 October, 2000.
		ApacheCon Europe 2000 is presented by The Apache Software Foundation and produced by Camelot Communications.
		Formed by members of the Apache Group, the group still exists beyond the participation of individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property and financial support, and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal exposure while participating in open-source projects.
	www.serverwatch.com /news/print.php/1123581 (339 words)

	Open Software Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Open Software Foundation was established to provide a forum for shared technology development and advanced research.
		Technology development specialized in enterprise infrastructure software ("middleware") to bring together otherwise proprietary enterprise systems, including the OSF/1 operating system, the Distributed Computing Environment, the Motif graphical user interface and the Common Desktop Environment.
		The OSF Research Institute had extensive advanced research programs, financed by governments and industry in areas such as operating system technology, the World Wide WEB and most recently JAVA.
	archive.opengroup.org /itdialtone/architecture/arch/osf.htm (80 words)

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