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Topic: Open-source (software)

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Open-source software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Open source highlights that the source code is viewable to all and proponents of the term usually emphasize the quality of the software and how this is caused by the development models which are possible and popular among free software/open source software projects. Open source advocates point out that as of the early 2000s, at least 90 percent of computer programmers are employed not to produce software for direct sale, but rather to design and customize software for other purposes, such as in-house applications. Software developers may want to publish their software with an open-source software license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand how it works. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source_software   (3118 words)

Open source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Software is not the only field affected by open source; many fields of study and social and political views have been affected by the growth of the concept of open source. Open source hardware — hardware whose initial specification, usually in a software format, are published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the hardware and source code without paying royalties or fees. Developers have used the term Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS), or Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS), consequently, to describe open-source software that is freely available and free of charge. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source   (1860 words)

The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) Software developers do not have the power to eliminate or override these restrictions, but what they can and must do is refuse to impose them as conditions of use of the program. To decide whether a specific software license qualifies as a free software license, we judge it based on these criteria to determine whether it fits their spirit as well as the precise words. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. www.gnu.org /philosophy/free-sw.html   (1471 words)

ONLamp.com -- What Is Open Source Open source began as, and for the most part still is, software created by a community of people who are dedicated to working together in a highly collaborative and evolutionary way. Open source usually refers to software that is released with source code under a license that ensures that derivative works will also be available as source code, protects certain rights of the original authors, and prohibits restrictions on how the software can be used or who can use it. The most important difference between software created by the open source communities and commercial software sold by vendors is that open source software is published under licenses that ensure that the source code is available to everyone to inspect, change, download, and explore as they wish. www.onlamp.com /pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/15/what-is-opensource.html   (1104 words)

Open Source Initiative OSI - The Open Source Definition We think the Open Source Definition captures what the great majority of the software community originally meant, and still mean, by the term "Open Source". The OSI Certified mark is OSI's way of certifying that the license under which the software is distributed conforms to the OSD; the generic term "Open Source" cannot provide that assurance, but we still encourage use of the term "Open Source" to mean conformance to the OSD. Software linked with GPLed libraries only inherits the GPL if it forms a single work, not any software with which they are merely distributed. www.opensource.org /docs/definition.php   (1347 words)

Debian -- What Does Free Mean? Software companies are looking to protect their assets so they only release compiled code (which isn't human readable) and put many restrictions on the use of the software. Software that is free only in the sense that you don't need to pay to use it is hardly free at all. Software licensed at no cost is usually a weapon in a marketing campaign to promote a related product or to drive a smaller competitor out of business. www.debian.org /intro/free   (1044 words)

What is open source? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary The process of eliminating bugs and improving the software happens at a much quicker rate than through the traditional development channels of commercial software as the information is shared throughout the open source community and does not originate and channel through a corporation's research and development cogs. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. (1) Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open. www.webopedia.com /TERM/o/open_source.html   (596 words)

Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) References Tim O'Reilly's "The Open Source Paradigm Shift" (May 2004) is a very interesting piece arguing that OSS/FS is an expression of three trends: the commoditization of software, network-enabled collaboration, and software customizability (software as a service). Open Source as ESS by David Rysdam, which applies game theory concepts to software licenses and argues that the GPL fundamentally ``wins'' over other licenses. Don't confuse ``open source software'' or ``free software'' with ``non-commercial'' software -- there are many examples of commercial open source / free software, and OSS/FS must be usable for commercial purposes. www.dwheeler.com /oss_fs_refs.html   (4990 words)

Open Directory - Computers: Open Source: Software Business Readiness Rating - A new standard model for rating open source software, with the goal of giving companies a source for determining whether the software they are considering is mature enough to adopt. Open Channel Foundation - Hosting open source projects and software from academic and research institutions and providing commercial services. The OSSwin Project - Project to build a directory of open source software which is able to replace much of the proprietary software most Windows-users use nowadays. dmoz.org /Computers/Open_Source/Software   (480 words)

Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research The open source movement is playing an important and vital role in software development at the end of the 20th century, and open source will continue to be an important center for creativity in the next century. Open source software development should better be viewed as a special case of academic research. Open source, in Raymond's view, is just source code, not all of the complex infrastructure and implicit knowledge that are used in large software projects. www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue4_10/bezroukov   (10337 words)

BBC - OpenSource Releasing open source software helps our audience get additional value from the work they've funded, and also get tools for free that they couldn't get any other way. For the BBC, open source software development is an extension of our Public Service remit. The site doesn't cover the many open source projects to which the BBC has contributed, but only those that the BBC has initiated and managed itself. www.bbc.co.uk /opensource   (132 words)

Open Source Software Open source users are encouraged to use Bugzilla to report bugs or suggest enhancements. PADL has had a long history of involvement with the open source community. The LDAP Nameservice Switch (NSS) module is an open source project to integrate LDAP as a native nameservice under AIX, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems. www.padl.com /Contents/OpenSourceSoftware.html   (481 words)

Free Software Open Source refers to the fact that the source code of Free Software is open to and for the world to take, to modify and to reuse. Open Source is a trademark of the Software in the Public Interest. Open Source and Free Software refer to, originally the same (around Feb 1998), but now different but largely similiar, set of software, but they emphasize different rationals; see Why ``Free Software'' is better than ``Open Source'' for more explanation. www.free-soft.org   (530 words)

Software [OCLC - Research] The Open Source initiative is described in more detail on the OCLC Research Open Software Development page. This software is being further developed as Open Source Development projects. If you have or are interested in software licensed under one of the older licenses and would like to use it under the Apache license, please contact us and we may be able to update the software to use the Apache license. www.oclc.org /research/software   (841 words)

Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers! Software that cannot be modified and redistributed without further limitation, but whose source code is visible (e.g., “source viewable” or “open box” software, including “shared source” and “community” licenses), is not considered here since such software don’t meet the definition of OSS/FS. Note that those who use the term “open source software” tend to emphasize technical advantages of such software (such as better reliability and security), while those who use the term “Free Software” tend to emphasize freedom from control by another and/or ethical issues. Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) (also abbreviated as FLOSS or FOSS) has risen to great prominence. www.dwheeler.com /oss_fs_why.html   (15201 words)

Open Source Software News TiVo uses the open source Linux operating system in its digital video recorders and gets a lot of heat from people in the Free and Open Source Software community because those boxes aren't as open as hackers... According to IT services provider, Unisys, open source software is set to have a similar impact on the marketplace as the internet did in the 1990s. Open Source Software News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. www.topix.net /tech/open-source   (667 words)

Open Source Software Development Open source is software developed by uncoordinated but loosely collaborating programmers, using freely distributed source code and the communications infrastructure of the Internet. Open source is commonly used to describe the business case for free software, focusing more on the development process rather than any underlying moral requirements. These developments demonstrate a sustained interest in open source, and it is quickly becoming a viable alternative to conventional methods of software development, as companies attempt to leverage the Internet in reducing time to market. chinese-school.netfirms.com /computer-article-open-source.html   (5576 words)

O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2003 In this ONLamp.com interview, Mitch discusses whether and how collaborative development can bring open source software to the desktop in a teaser for his upcoming OSCON keynote. Titled "Your Open Source Plan," the article explains why CIOs need to seriously consider using open source software. Invitation to Attend The 5th O'Reilly Open Source Convention -- Read why you cannot afford to miss OSCON 2003 from Convention Chair Nathan Torkington and O'Reilly & Associates President Tim O'Reilly. conferences.oreillynet.com /os2003   (768 words)

Welcome! - The Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. The Apache Software Foundation would like to express its condolences to the family and friends of Nicolas Chalumeau, who passed away on the 4th of October at the age of 27. www.apache.org   (209 words)

Open Source Software CD Offering a DVD image will certainly provide enough room to fit all known high-quality Open Source Software for Windows onto a single disc, but the problem is that very few computers are equipped with a DVD-ROM, much less a DVD writer, at this point. It is a burnable ISO image for a CD that contains high-quality, Free, open source software for Microsoft Windows 95 and higher. The first and best choice is to use BitTorrent, revolutionary P2P software that allows multiple simultaneous downloads to share bandwidth for an ultimately faster download. osscd.sunsite.dk   (759 words)

W3C Open Source Software W3C software is free and open source: the software is made primarily by people of the Web community, for the Web community. As explained below, all of W3C software source is freely available, developers are encouraged to get the source for the projects they care about and start hacking right away. Note that as this license is GPL compatible, it is possible to redistribute software based on W3C sources under a GPL license. www.w3.org /Status   (1584 words)

NASA Ames Research Center OpenSource Livingstone2 is a reusable artificial intelligence (AI) software system designed to assist spacecraft, life support systems, chemical plants or other complex systems in operating robustly with minimal human supervision, even in the face of hardware failures or unexpected events. In particular, software information is periodically gathered from native package managers on FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX as well as the RPM, Perl, and Python, package managers on multiple platforms. The new gird service, developed as an Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) service, enables users to describe the platform on which they need their job to run, then, the service locates the desired platform, configures it for the required application, and executes the job for them. opensource.arc.nasa.gov   (1065 words)

The GNU Operating System The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Project. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX like operating system which is free software: the GNU system, (GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”; it is pronounced guh-noo, like canoe. We support the FSF's mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users. www.gnu.org   (433 words)

Open source vs. free software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Open source software and free software are terms used to describe approaches and philosophies under which certain computer software is made available to the public. Open source is the term used, when the source code for software may be examined and viewed by any third party. On a practical level open source software and free software usually share the same licenses, but according to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the open source movement is philosophically distinct from the free software movement. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source_vs._free_software   (938 words)

Free and Open Source Software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia F/OSS is generally synonymous with free software and open source software, and describes the same licenses, culture, and development models. Free and Open Source Software, also F/OSS or FOSS, is software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. Some examples of FOSS software include: the Linux kernel, GNOME Desktop, and FreeBSD. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FOSS   (201 words)

Free software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The usual way for software to be distributed as free software is for the software to be accompanied by a free software license, and the source code of the software to be made available. Freedom from such restrictions is central to the concept of "free software", such that the opposite of free software is proprietary software, and not software which is sold for profit, such as commercial software. Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in October 1985. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_software   (2680 words)

ossdev.html Open Source Software development suffers from widespread misunderstandings in the media from myths, false claims and disinformation. Open Source software development uses a different process, a different sense of order than closed source; but it's not anarchy. Most free software projects use an iterative approach to development while using open source programming tools. www.consultingtimes.com /ossdev.html   (3647 words)

Open Source Initiative OSI - Welcome Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits. You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source." We also make copies of approved open source licenses here. www.opensource.org   (497 words)

Tigris.org: Open Source Software Engineering The open source software development movement has produced a number of very powerful and useful software development tools, but it has also evolved a software development process that works well under conditions where normal development processes fail. Tigris.org provides information resources for software engineering professionals and students, and a home for open source software engineering tool projects. Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development. www.tigris.org   (478 words)

Fighting Raymondism: Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research One of the major criticisms is that the pool of talented developers that can spend their time on open source projects is very limited and as such open source software projects usually suffer from lack of development resources and luck of feedback. O'Reilly Whence the Source Untangling the Open Source-Free Software Debate Where open source tends to fall down is not in lack of innovation, but in a failure to achieve the same level of limited function and high glitz as proprietary solutions. www.softpanorama.org /OSS/index.shtml   (15484 words)

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