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.
If software should be free and open source, why not make other technologies also free and open source?
Travellers looking for great stories on their favourite destinations now have a new source of free reading material.
The group is a source of free customer research for your prospective new offerings as well.
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Core publishing business is an important source of free cash flow and has synergies with the local deals business.
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In the past, many members treated it mainly as a source of free trips abroad, while ministers told them how to vote.
Most importantly, insurers have been able to use the funds as a free source of capital to underwrite new business.
Like Firefox's, Chrome's source code is free for anybody to change and improve, and even for rival browser-makers to incorporate.
More than just supplying a battery-free source of light, though, the lantern can function as a charger, thanks to a USB port built into the casing.
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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.
This free, open-source program offers a spyware- and nuisance-free installation.
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By comparison, some competitors offer similar software at a fraction of that price, and open-source products are usually free.
So sometimes, instead, they use open-source alternatives available for free on the internet.
Wind is certainly not a competitive free market source of energy, or a charity we can continue to afford.
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The rift in the definitions causes a few select cases where the licenses are open source but not technically free software licenses.
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 Autodesk Simulation Workshop is free online source of education modules that can be used to train the next generation of engineers in advanced materials use.
Blackburn's response came from an unlikely source as a long free-kick from goalkeeper Paul Robinson - who has twice been on the scoresheet in his career - almost deceived opposite number Gilks.
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.
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).
An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.
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Nukes may not be quite as clean as wind, solar or geothermal, but they provide a carbon-free and domestic source of energy that produces lots of jobs.
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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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Free open-source software is chosen over conventional packages.
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