Without the free and open source Android, can Chinese smart phone and tablet manufacturers grow that fast?
If software should be free and open source, why not make other technologies also free and open source?
Oracle has reiterated that the Java language itself is free and open source (as Sun declared it to be years ago).
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.
Android recently crossed the 50% global market share barrier in the mobile OS market helped by both its wide range of manufacturer-partners as well as its free and open source roots.
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The Open Feint tools are free and open source.
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The Platform was developed with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) framework by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa within the Africa Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Consortium comprising of 11 African universities.
For now, it appears that the API Copyright Troll concept is limited to the particular case of Java, software created corporate owners (Sun) who chose to make it free and open source, but was then purchased by a company (Oracle) that has had enormous success in selling licenses and services for the software it developed.
GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects.
The project consists of assembling and readapting a package of high quality free open source software in three languages (Arabic, French and English) and disseminating it in Arab countries on USB keys.
Still, Sun's VirtualBox is a promising entry into the desktop virtualization scene and its offer is compelling: It's free for personal use, and it's open source.
Forbes.com: It seems the debate over GPLv3 is pushing people to choose between the "free software" camp and the "open source" camp.
Key technology leaders are striving to increase access to education through low-cost or free peer-to-peer and open-source models.
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The idea was a free open source technology for organizers and campaigners.
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Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution, the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips and open-source (often free) software such as Linux.
By comparison, some competitors offer similar software at a fraction of that price, and open-source products are usually free.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
This free, open-source program offers a spyware- and nuisance-free installation.
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It forced long-time hospital administrators with tight schedules and deadlines to loosen up and collaborate with a network of free agents open source programmers who voluntarily support a publicly available electronic health record called VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture).
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The two founders of CoderDojo are just as inspirational, 20-year old James Wheltan and his business partner, Bill Liao created the open source coding movement out of nothing except a belief that learning, especially programming, should be free and open, oh and the world needs more programmers.
Companies are trying to save money and increase innovation by integrating third party code, including free open source code, into their software supply chain.
The London-based firm behind it, Canonical, offers it for download free of charge and has been helped by thousands of volunteers who contribute to the open source project.
Yet Linux and the similarly free Apache web server, as products of the fragmented open-source movement, will find it hard to create a tightly integrated and well-architected platform for developing applications something that Mr Gates understands better than anyone.
Although MySQL and its underlying recipe are available free, any added code built around the open-source product must also be made open source.
As well as championing open standards, he is also interested in the open source movement and says Domino will be able to work with the Linux free Operating System.
And Johansen is an advocate of the open-source philosophy of sharing software code for free.
When most people think about open source, they usually think of the free Linux operating system, which is developed and maintained by a worldwide network of collaborators.
SFLan and similar efforts such as Consume.net (in London), Guerrilla.net (in Cambridge, Massachusetts), and Seattle Wireless are reminiscent of the open-source movement, whose members contribute to free software such as the operating system Linux.
Hit that source link (or just open up the App Market) to grab it for free, and jump on past the break to see how your fellow city dwellers feel about this marvelous invention.
Sanchez said that not only is the license unclear, but corners of the open source community have little or no interest in working with commercial entities to integrate proprietary and free software.
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