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
  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
• in Technology
  Ten Tech Trends for Your 2012 New Year’s Resolutions List
  This year ten trends will move from “new concept” to “mainstream trend.” Exploring all should be on your “to-do” list.
  by jhaughwout / on Jan 16, 2012
• in Gadgets
  Meg Whitman And The WebOS No Brainer
  It took the CEO of an auction house to point out the obvious. But why wasn't it obvious before?
  by lordpenguin / on Dec 15, 2011

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• Android blijft gratis en open source voor tenminste vijf jaar

  
  The Mobile Revolution — Authority: 122
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• HP webOS Enyo team is going Google

  
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  Verge: The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS’s HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The Verge has learned. What this means for the future of Open webOS is unclear; Enyo and the developers supporting it are central ...
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• Matt Mullenweg and the Cult of WordPress | PandoDaily

  
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  WordPress is one of the most-used blogging software systems in the world. Thats a remarkable achievement in itself, but the loyal cult following Mullenweg and WordPress have cultivated (get it? cult-ivated?), is equally as ...
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• Texmaker 3.3.4

  
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  Texmaker integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX in just one application. Release Notes: This release fixes a critical bug related to "undo" operations, completes syntax highlighting of mathematical environments, and adds a Polish dictionary. Tags: Text Processing, Markup, TeX/LaTeX ...
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• Task Coach Portable 1.3.15 (task management) Released

  
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  Task Coach Portable 1.3.15 has been released. Task Coach Portable is the popular Task Coach packaged as a portable app so you bring your to-do list and task manager with you so you always stay on top of things. This release updates Task Coach to the latest version. Its packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it ...
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• Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source AGI Toward Friendliness

  
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• Why Open Compute Is a Win For Rackspace

  
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• Umple 1.15.0.1751

  
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• Mole 0.5.15

  
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• NoMachine NX 3.5.0-11

  
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• Recoll 1.17.3

  
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• myCrop 25-05-2012

  
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• Apache Ant 1.8.4

  
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• DocumentBurster 5.7.2

  
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• flexmock 0.9.4

  
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• Task Coach 1.3.15

  
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• Granite Data Services 2.3.2.GA

  
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• What the Next Wave of Online Video Holds

  
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• The Open Source graphics is not dead!

  
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• Songbird Portable (media player) 1.10.3 Released by PortableApps.com

  
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