If software should be free and open source, why not make other technologies also free and open source?
The idea was a free open source technology for organizers and campaigners.
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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.
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.
The Open Feint tools are free and open source.
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An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.
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Linux, the free, open source operating system, continues to hover at a little over one percent.
Without the free and open source Android, can Chinese smart phone and tablet manufacturers grow that fast?
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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Free open-source software is chosen over conventional packages.
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.
This free, open-source program offers a spyware- and nuisance-free installation.
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GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects.
OpenCongress aims to make federal government more responsive through free, open-source software, with the goal of greater civic engagement.
McDerment's online strategy starts with his Web site, which features a custom-made forum that runs on free, open-source software called PunBB.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
It distributes its hypervisor as free, open-source software but sells related products.
Back then many companies ran a free, open-source e-mail relay technology but ended up spending more than they thought they would making the stuff work.
It is calculated using the same blend of prices by which IDC determines the average software unit price, including: retail, volume license, OEM, free, open-source, etc.
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The free, open-source plug-in, an extension for Firefox, checks a library of scraped terms of service and privacy policies from dozens of major sites that updates every three hours.
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Much advice on offer online suggests souping up the specification of a netbook so it can run Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, rather than the free, open-source Linux system that is offered as standard on many netbooks.
Most of these vendors chose Unix because it began as a free operating system with open source.
Primping aside, it will be interesting to see whether consumers agree with Siu and Intel chairman Craig Barrett that Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC is little more than a gadgety PDA, or whether free, robust open-source software is more appealing to the budget-conscious geek.
Free of license restriction, open source access acts as a basis for innovation, enabling motivated users to customize solutions for context-specific needs.
To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
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With the same fervor that rallied the open-source free software movement, members of such groups as Seattle Wireless, in Seattle, Washington, SFLan in San Francisco and Consume.net in London are bolting radio antennas to their roofs and broadcasting a shared invisible connection to their friends down the block.
It sells database software which is also available in a free, widely used, open-source version.
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