Anyone can look at operating system source code, modify it and share it with the world.
If it is not completely open source with code open for public inspection and comment, then is can not be a valid way to collect votes.
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The Oculus folks -- no longer a single man, but now a company of around 20 employees -- worked with Epic Games on getting the source code up and running for the hardware prototype, though it's unclear if it'll ever actually be released to developers or the general public.
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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.
Anyone from the open-source community can tinker with one part of the code and produce a custom-configured operating system.
In Drupal Gardens, users will be able to press a button and get a source code version of the Drupal code that runs their site along with the data from the database.
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.
Like Microsoft before it, Google cultivates developers, with all-day mapping conferences, lunches with Schmidt, work on new coding languages and open-source development, and almost daily postings of new code and product information on a company blog.
To help with the graphics part, Code for America teamed up with the Noun Project, an open-source icon repository, and solicited the help of activists and designers in major cities across the country.
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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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