Microsoft, he says, makes a large amount of source code available under a so-called shared-source licence, which grants users downstream a limited set of rights to modify and use the code.
The data can be exported to CSV, and the source code is available on Github.
It is also making the Windows source-code available to governments for scrutiny.
Yes, Android might be "open" in the sense that the source code is available, but there's no doubt Google's wielded incredible power over the platform by restricting access to Market and its own apps -- power that hasn't been used to prevent carrier-mandated bloatware or poorly-done manufacturer skinning, but has instead apparently been used to block legitimate competitors like Skyhook from doing business.
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So, the PGP source code was only available in a 43-volume, 65, 000-page set of books sold in a Palo Alto bookstore called Printer's Ink.
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Installable images and source code will be available from developer.ubuntu.com.
There are no plans to mass-produce the machine, but instructions and source code are being made available.
He made the source code behind Linux freely available so that others could modify it to suit their needs, or contribute their own improvements.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
Windows users should have relatively simple control through an app if they just want to play, but where Fritz may shine is its open source nature: the code and hardware schematics will be available for extending support, changing the look or building a larger robot where Fritz is just one part.
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Microsoft' also adding code samples to its Kinect for Windows development site (CodePlex), making this the first such code from Microsoft available in an open-source channel.
We are now at the point where the source code to whatever computer programs were used needs to be made available as well.
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Although MySQL and its underlying recipe are available free, any added code built around the open-source product must also be made open source.
Like other open source software, such as the operating system Linux, Firefox's code is freely available for any programmer to examine and improve.
Since the open-source release, dubbed Darwin, has been available, there have been more than 160, 000 downloads of source-code components and more than 20, 000 developers have registered on Apple's Darwin Web site, Bereskin said.
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.
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