Anyone can look at operating system source code, modify it and share it with the world.
We should make the Social Security system a source of ownership for the American people.
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.
This capability makes it easy to link back to the source system to take action.
Most of these vendors chose Unix because it began as a free operating system with open source.
MALAYSIA'S government is keen to portray the country's financial system as a source of strength in a sickly region.
The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
In return, the Ohio Republican, who is his party's chief negotiator in the talks, wants spending cuts and reforms to entitlement programs as well as the tax system, the source said.
Though Symbian's certainly not getting as much share of the mobile discussion these days as some of its smaller competitors, it's certainly important to keep in mind that these guys have software deployed on literally hundreds of millions of devices, making this perhaps the largest-scale conversion of a closed operating system to open source in history.
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Microsoft reached an agreement that will allow its Windows operating system, with which most people are familiar, to work with the open source Linux system used by rival Novell.
Its Sparc computer chip and Solaris operating system have been made less relevant by Microsoft Windows, Intel chips and the open-source Linux operating system.
Linux, the free, open source operating system, continues to hover at a little over one percent.
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry.
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With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
Or having the integrated, open-source software system that allows access to the two 300 Legacy systems of software.
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So an open-source operating system like Android will do well in this market because they save on licensing fees.
The end result really is a comprehensive solution, in the sense of covering every conceivable source of system upset.
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Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
The fate of Meego, a joint venture with Intel to create an open-source operating system, is less clear.
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The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
Upstart Linux, the open-source operating system that Microsoft speaks of so fearfully, currently runs less than 3% of all PCs.
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The company has one product called Acquia Network, which is a set of tools and services for companies using the open source Drupal system.
Mr. BOGLE: Well, what happens is the financial system is usually the source of the speculation that brings about the cycles in the market.
The lesson is that giving governments more power over the economy and financial system is itself a source of potentially catastrophic financial and economic instability.
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Linux is an open source operating system developed by independent and corporate programmers worldwide which has much of the functionality of the powerful Unix system.
There are ubuntu education funds, ubuntu tents at development conferences, ubuntu villages, an ubuntu university - and it's now the name of an open-source operating system.
"If James Murdoch did not have the backing of independent shareholders at BSkyB, I think his position would be very difficult, under the British governance system" said the source.
Google decided to make Android an open-source operating system, which meant that third parties could take the code, tweak it for their own needs, and sell competing Android-based products.
Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
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