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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It distributes its hypervisor as free, open-source software but sells related products.
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.
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.
The rift in the definitions causes a few select cases where the licenses are open source but not technically free software licenses.
Companies are trying to save money and increase innovation by integrating third party code, including free open source code, into their software supply chain.
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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If software should be free and open source, why not make other technologies also free and open source?
And Johansen is an advocate of the open-source philosophy of sharing software code for free.
Forbes.com: It seems the debate over GPLv3 is pushing people to choose between the "free software" camp and the "open source" camp.
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.
OpenOffice.org, a ten-year-old open-source office software built with Oracle's help, is free.
According to Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technical officer, as the open-source movement grows, it will get better at producing free clones of commercial software.
While lying on a Cancun beach in 2002, Douglas Levin pondered the conundrum that is open-source software: How do you make money off something that's free?
It sells database software which is also available in a free, widely used, open-source version.
Google makes the software available on an open-source basis, meaning others including rivals are free to adapt it to their needs.
The software leviathan stunned a rookery of Linux users yesterday at a conference and expo in Boston with the revelation that it will now provide technical support for the open-source software running on Virtual Server, and would make Virtual Server 2005 R2 available free.
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.
By comparison, some competitors offer similar software at a fraction of that price, and open-source products are usually free.
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.
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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Meanwhile, the folks behind open-source software are growing more upset as they see companies aligning themselves with Microsoft to give their customers a free pass against that possibility.
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