It just doesn't pay to be an enemy of the open source movement these days.
Among so many other things, the operating system gave rise to the modern open source movement.
Apache, a software project of the open source movement, claims the majority of the Web server market.
He was also, unsurprisingly, an early advocate of the open source movement.
Even Microsoft has adopted something of the approach of the open source movement by pledging to governments to give them sight of Windows' source code.
Author, activist and agriculture expert Michael Pollan has been stumping for an open source movement for GE crops for the better portion of a decade.
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.
The open source movement is campaigning hard to persuade even the largest software companies, like Microsoft, to open up their programs and let everyone look for errors or security problems.
Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.
You Are Not a Gadget is a manifesto in the starkest sense of the term: Lanier fully articulates his final and somewhat absolute break with the open source movement typified by what he describes as the "Libertarians" of Silicon Valley and the proponents of Web 2.0.
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.
The open-source movement has blossomed into a robust philosophy of transparency and collaboration with the potential to transform all industries.
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Yet Oracle needs to secure its future--especially now, as old-guard software vendors get undercut by a raft of cheap newcomers in the open-source movement.
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.
However, the biggest challenge to Sun's dominance may come not from the old enemy in Redmond, but from Linux, a free operating system that is a product of the open-source movement.
Fortunately, the open-source movement is more vibrant than ever.
The notion that free code should beget more free code is central to the open-source movement, but it's a sticky point to companies, like Cisco Systems, that make a living off of intellectual property.
But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.
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.
Open Source, a movement that would fundamentally change how software is developed was also a nascent movement at the time.
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Bioengineers, like computer programmers in the Linux open-source software movement, are encouraged to contribute "bricks" voluntarily, and can order the parts they need over the Internet.
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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.
Unfortunately, the movement towards open source GE is a slow starter.
Microsoft critics see this as simply as a tactic designed to dent the success of open source software as a whole and shows how successful the movement has become.
Intel also believes in the power of collaboration to power the green movement: The company announced its own open-source environmental project at the Intel Developer Forum last week.
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