That's why we created Android, and made its source code open.

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Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices and even modify its source code to improve its operating system.

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Bill Gates's company makes money by selling intellectual property, jealously guarding its programs' source code and fighting software piracy.

ECONOMIST: Free software

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is liberally licensed software that grants users the right to use, study, adapt and distribute its design through the availability of its source code.

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Windows users should have relatively simple control through an app if they just want to play, but where Fritz may shine is its open source nature: the code and hardware schematics will be available for extending support, changing the look or building a larger robot where Fritz is just one part.

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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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Kerberos gained pre-eminence because it is clever, and because its developers, computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, released the source code, which let security experts around the world debug and refine the program line by line.

ECONOMIST: Microsoft

The gamut of possible outcomes runs from a mild go-forth-and-sin-no-more to the truly Draconian stuff: forcing Microsoft to share its Windows source code with its competitors or carving it up into separate, independent companies, the so-called Baby Bills (see chart).

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Its MxR Lab has just launched a showcase of creations and modifications that DIY enthusiasts can build, including open source code for both the devices and integrating full-body motion control through Kinect for Windows or OpenNI.

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