The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
And just as open-source programmers collaborate by sharing software code, engineers are already starting to collaborate on open-source designs for objects and hardware.
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Companies are trying to save money and increase innovation by integrating third party code, including free open source code, into their software supply chain.
But he knew a ton about open-source software, whose source code is given away in order to attract improvements.
And Johansen is an advocate of the open-source philosophy of sharing software code for free.
CenterPoint's network was engineered by ibm and runs on open-source software, meaning anybody can access the underlying code to develop new products to ride on the communications system CenterPoint is building.
Like other open source software, such as the operating system Linux, Firefox's code is freely available for any programmer to examine and improve.
Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation.
Levin's software scans a given program, looking for strings of code that might be open source, then identifies the licenses that apply.
Android is open source software, which means developers who don't work for Google are allowed to see the source code and create a range of applications to work with it.
After being quoted in Mr Spadaro's paper, Mr Raymond took to his own website to note that he had deliberately equated cathedrals with proprietary, closed-source software directed from above, by contrast with the more chaotic bazaar of equals which produces open-source code.
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