It is also making the Windows source-code available to governments for scrutiny.

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When we went into deliberation in the jury room we not only had all the physical evidence of everything that was presented, but we also had sealed source code in its entirety from both sides, we actually had the memos that were talked about in the trial... and there was a piece of evidence after a piece of evidence that just clearly stacked up.

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At that time that many of the same sort of code sharing that later emerged in the era of open source also emerged.

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As such, Puzzlebox will also freely distribute all material in relation to the project, from the source code to the hardware schematics to how-to guides for dismantling and reassembling the whole thing.

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Although MySQL and its underlying recipe are available free, any added code built around the open-source product must also be made open source.

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Open source projects require the writing of code, sure, but also developing documentation and training methods, managing and researching communities of users, testing the quality of existing code and designing the interfaces and interactions of user experience.

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