Anyone can look at operating system source code, modify it and share it with the world.
Just as he did with a previous artificial brain model, Yamazaki plans to release the source code for the system.
Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices and even modify its source code to improve its operating system.
On one system, 74 user accounts had privileges enabling them to change program source code without supervisory oversight, the report stated.
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.
I'm thrilled to announce that we are publishing the source code for We the People, the online petitions system that has been a popular way for the public to connect with the White House over the past year.
Like other open source software, such as the operating system Linux, Firefox's code is freely available for any programmer to examine and improve.
Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.
Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, called for an open-source approach to rethinking government, making its operating system as accessible to everyone as the code that powers the Arduino device.
Anyone from the open-source community can tinker with one part of the code and produce a custom-configured operating system.
CenterPoint's network was engineered by ibm and runs on open-source software, meaning anybody can access the underlying code to develop new products to ride on the communications system CenterPoint is building.
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