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Archive for February, 2008

Comparison of Open Source and Closed Source

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Wikipedia explained that:
The open source vs. closed source (alternatively called proprietary software) debate is sometimes heated.
Making money through traditional methods, such as sale of the use of individual copies and patent royalty payment, is more difficult and sometimes impractical with open source software. Some closed-source advocates see open source software as damaging to the market [...]

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Open Source Games

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Open source games are computer games assembled out of, and are themselves, open-source software and open content.
See below list of open source games:

FreeDoom is a set of open source graphics files for open source versions of the Doom engine
GNU Chess is a chess program. Xboard (a.k.a. Winboard) is an open-source front-end for it.

OpenTTD is an [...]

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Non-software Use

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The principles of open source have been adapted for many other forms of user generated content. Supporters of the open content movement advocate some restrictions of use, requirements to share changes, and attribution to other authors of the work.
This “culture” or ideology takes the view that the principles apply more generally to facilitate concurrent input [...]

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Open source for teachers

Monday, February 18th, 2008

gnuschool is an open source web-based application for testing, grading, and attendance for educators, students, and school administrators. Its numerous features help teachers and school administrators do the following:

create, edit, view tests
monitor and search for tests
give makeup tests
search grades
view grades
take class attendance
search attendance
arrange room seating
edit the way student information is displayed

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The Battle Continues

Friday, February 15th, 2008

With the growing competition from the open source software suppliers, Microsoft is ready to cooperate for sharing some source licenses which will be made available soon. This move is believed to face a much bigger competition from its rivals such as Sun Microsystems. Microsoft’s liberal motion appear to be geared toward keeping a solid grasp [...]

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Other names for free or open source software

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Free or open source software can also be called “Software Libre”. The European Commission used the term “FLOSS” (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) in a study on the topic. The term “FOSS” (or F/OSS, Free and Open Source Software) also exists, but has been criticized as Free/Open seems to imply free-of-charge, while Free/Libre makes it clear the reference [...]

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Proliferation Of The Term

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

While the term applied originally only to the source code of software,[5] it is now being applied to many other areas such as open source ecology, a movement to decentralize technologies so that any human can use them. However, it is often misapplied to other areas which have different and competing principles, which overlap only [...]

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