• The Open Software Foundation, Inc. (OSF), was a not-for-profit industry consortium for creating an open standard for an implementation of the operating...
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    approximately 1000 members. The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized open source community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under...
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    Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified...
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    The Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. (FSFE) is an organization that supports free software and all aspects of the free software movement in Europe...
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  • approved by at least one of the following expert groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project and the Fedora Project...
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  • for that search engine. It is an open-source project developed by the OpenSearch Software Foundation (a Linux Foundation project) written primarily in Java...
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    Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study,...
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  • of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the...
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  • software. Free Software Movement of India International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa...
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  • This list of Apache Software Foundation projects contains the software development projects of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Besides the projects...
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    Foundation (LF) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects. The Linux Foundation...
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  • The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organization supports the...
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    Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software for changing the license to fix this incompatibility. Free and open-source software portal...
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  • promotion of open source software development in the life sciences. The foundation also organises and runs the annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference...
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    corpora of programs, the Free Software Foundation recommends using the term "free software" rather than "open-source software" (an alternative, yet similar...
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  • The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is an American nonprofit organization devoted to the Python programming language, launched on March 6, 2001. The...
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  • The open source model is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration. A main principle of open source software development...
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    the Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021. In July 2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA announced an open-source cloud-software initiative known as OpenStack...
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    The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a cross-industry forum for collaborative improvement of open-source software security. Part of the Linux...
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  • for emerging web technologies. The foundation follows an open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Individuals participating include...
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  • originally used UUIDs in the Network Computing System (NCS). Later, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) used UUIDs for their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)...
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  • kernel of Darwin is XNU, a hybrid kernel which uses OSFMK 7.3 (Open Software Foundation Mach Kernel) from the OSF, various elements of FreeBSD (including...
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  • The Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) is the Indian sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation. It was founded in Thiruvananthapuram...
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  • The open-source software movement is a social movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, as part of the broader...
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  • The Open Software License (OSL) is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified it as an open-source license...
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  • for Germany software developers who develop innovative open source software. The foundation places a strong interest in the use of open source technologies...
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  • Alternative terms for free software, such as open source, FOSS, and FLOSS, have been a recurring issue among free and open-source software users from the late...
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  • OSF/1 is a variant of the Unix operating system developed by the Open Software Foundation during the late 1980s and early 1990s. OSF/1 is one of the first...
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  • Software companies focusing on the development of open-source software (OSS) employ a variety of business models to solve the challenge of making profits...
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  • Free Software Definition is a policy document written by Richard Stallman and published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It defines free software as...
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