Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the...
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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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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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Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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Open Source Press was a computer book publisher based in Munich, Germany. The company specialized in high-quality publications on topics related to open-source...
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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a California public benefit corporation "actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public...
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Open-source governance (also known as open governance and open politics) is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the philosophies...
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Open-source Judaism is a name given to initiatives within the Jewish community employing open content and open-source licensing strategies for collaboratively...
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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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Open-source intelligence (OSINT) refers to the systematic collection, evaluation, and analysis of publicly available information from open sources to produce...
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The Open Source Enterprise (OSE) is a United States Government organization dedicated to open-source intelligence. Initially part of the Office of the...
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The Open Source Definition (OSD) is a document published by the Open Source Initiative. Derived from Bruce Perens' Debian Free Software Guidelines, the...
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Open-source religions employ open-source methods for the sharing, construction, and adaptation of religious belief systems, content, and practice. In comparison...
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Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village...
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Chris Messina (inventor) (redirect from Chris Messina (open source ambassador))
ProductHunt.com. He is a technology evangelist who is an advocate for open source, open standards, microformats, and OAuth. Messina is also known for his...
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of open-source software (OSS) employ a variety of business models to solve the challenge of making profits from software that is under an open-source license...
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Open-source artificial intelligence is an AI system that is freely available to use, study, modify, and share. These attributes extend to each of the...
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Microsoft, a tech company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From...
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An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source. They are often freely distributable and sometimes...
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information. This includes the making of both free and open-source software (FOSS) as well as open-source hardware. The process is generally facilitated by...
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Open-source software development (OSSD) is the process by which open-source software, or similar software whose source code is publicly available, is developed...
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Open-source architecture is an emerging paradigm advocating new procedures in the imagination and formation of virtual and real spaces within a universal...
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management systems, and online stores. Available as free and open-source software, WordPress is among the most popular content management systems – it was...
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The history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s,...
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The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software. The open-core model primarily involves offering...
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Open Source Summit (formerly LinuxCon) is a name for a series of annual conventions organized each year since 2009 by the Linux Foundation. The first...
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Portal: Free and open-source software List of free and open-source software packages List of open-source mobile phones List of open-source hardware projects...
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Open source license litigation involves lawsuits surrounding open-source licensed software. Many of the legal rights of open source software licensors...
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Open collector, open drain, open emitter, and open source refer to integrated circuit (IC) output pin configurations that process the IC's internal function...
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Open-source appropriate technology (OSAT) is appropriate technology developed through the principles of the open-design movement. Appropriate technology...
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