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unusual facts about Free Software



APC Smart-UPS

A free alternative to PowerChute is the Free software project APC UPS Daemon (Apcupsd), which supports Linux, Mac OS X, UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems and can run in stand alone or client-server modes.

Aubrey Jaffer

Aubrey Jaffer is a mathematician who has written several free software programs, such as the SCM Scheme implementation, which forms the core of GNU Guile, and the SLIB portable Scheme library.

August Penguin

August Penguin is an annual gathering (since 2002) of the Israeli Free Software community, organized by Hamakor.

EasyCard

At the 27th annual German Chaos Communication Congress hacker conference ("27C3") in 2010, German free software programmer Harald Welte showed that it is possible to artificially change the amount of money stored on a first-generation EasyCard—based on the MIFARE Classic—using nothing more than a USB RFID reader and a laptop computer running open source software.

Electric Sheep

The screensaver was created and released as free software by Scott Draves in 1999 and continues to be developed by him and a team of about five engineers.

FlightGear

FlightGear code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, thus being free software.

Future of robotics

The most commonly used software in the robotics research are Free Software solutions such as Player/Stage or cross-platform technologies such as URBI.

GGZ

GGZ Gaming Zone, a Free Software online gaming project which among others develops games for the KDE and GNOME desktops.

GGZ Gaming Zone

GGZ is the Free Software community's answer to advertising-driven community gaming sites like MSN Games, Yahoo! Games, and Pogo.com.

Graph Modelling Language

Graph-tool, a free and efficient Python module for manipulation and statistical analysis of graphs.

HMMER

HMMER is a free and commonly used software package for sequence analysis written by Sean Eddy.

InfoNU

Some building blocks in InfoNU are released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, making it free software.

Ipernity

Ipernity was developed in Sophia Antipolis and required two years of programming and testing, and was built chiefly with free and open source software technology.

IS4C

IS4C or Integrated Systems for Co-ops is a free web-based point of sale software for retail stores initially developed by Tak Tang for the Wedge Community Co-op in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

John W. Eaton

John W. Eaton is the initial and main author of Octave, a system for numerical computations with a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB, but is free software.

Kalyan Varma

An active evangelist of Free Software and Creative Commons, he is an expert on Application security and cryptography.

LUSerNet

LUSerNet (pronounced Loser Net, roughly standing for Lancaster University Student Network) is a free peer-to-peer package for use on local area networks, developed between the end of 2001 and late 2002 by a Lancaster University first year Computer Science student known as 'bramp'.

Mozilla Europe

It was founded on 17 February 2004 by contributors to Mozilla and other free software projects, and was an independent affiliate of the Mozilla Foundation with headquarters in Paris, France.

Open innovation

Open source specialist François Letellier advocates that open source (or free software) is a natural way of innovation in the software industry and that it is an exemplary and very effective form of open innovation – as open-source projects/communities act as innovation intermediaries.

Open Source Applications Foundation

The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Mitch Kapor whose purpose is to effect widespread adoption of free software/open-source software.

Plumi

Plumi is a free software video sharing content management system based on Plone and primarily developed by the Asia-Pacific based EngageMedia, the Greece based Unweb.me consultancy, and others.

Sacix

Sacix is a Debian Pure Blend originally created to support the educational and free software diffusion goals of the Telecentres project of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Snes9x

The emulator does not meet the Free Software Foundation's free software definition or the Open Source Initiative's open source definition, since it is a violation of the license to sell Snes9x, and both definitions prohibit restrictions of use or discrimination against fields of endeavor.

Southern California Linux Expo

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is an annual Linux, open source and free software conference held in Los Angeles, California, since 2002.

Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler

The Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM) is a free software available through the Eclipse Foundation.

SPIP

SPIP is a free software for content management used both by institutional sites, news sites (the webmaster of Le Monde diplomatique newspaper is one of the initiators of SPIP), community portals or academic sites, or personal webpages.

The Summit Open Source Development Group

The group maintained an early port of ircII EPIC to the Windows platform, provided a free hosting and development platform for Open Source and Free Software developers, and created the 2mbit Blackhole List (a predecessor of the modern AHBL).

Trust metric

The free software developer resource Advogato is based on a novel approach to attack-resistant trust metrics of Raph Levien.

Warmux

The teams are styled after the mascots of various free software projects, such as GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, KDE, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Suse, Workrave, NuFW, SPIP, and Bugzilla.

WinRoll

WinRoll is an open source, free software utility for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 which allows the user to "roll up" windows into their title bars, in addition to other window management related features.

XPaint

XPaint (alternatively capitalized Xpaint) is a free open source image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment on Unix-like operating systems.

Xvid

In contrast with the DivX codec, which is proprietary software developed by DivX, Inc., Xvid is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.


see also

9793 Torvalds

9882 Stallman, an asteroid named after Richard Matthew Stallman, American hacker, founder of the free software movement and the GNU project

Benjamin Mako Hill

Hill has a Master's degree from the MIT Media Lab and is a PhD candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he studies free software communities and business models.

DonationCoder.com

The community develops and finances its own free software, software reviews, podcasts, and a diverse programming school.

Eben Moglen

And: "Note how even the smallest encounter with Free Software can make a man cheerful about the future of our judge" (said after hearing a judge of the Allahabad high court, India speak on the subject).

Fiasco

FIASCO, the name used by very early versions of PSPP, a free software application for analysis of sampled data

Frederick Noronha

His articles on Free Software have been published in Linux Journal and Free Software Magazine.

Free Software and Open Source Symposium

Seneca's Free Software and Open Source Symposium is a yearly event at Seneca College, Canada.

Free software movement

Congressmen Edgar David Villanueva and Jacques Rodrich Ackerman have been instrumental in introducing in Republic of Peru bill 1609 on "Free Software in Public Administration".

Free Software Street

In January 2010, the second edition of the Free Software Conferences was being organized and it was decided to invite the Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman to participate in the planned events, including the naming ceremony of the street.

FSCONS

FSFE and is presenting the winner of the yearly Nordic Free Software Award, given to the person/project that have made a contribution to the advancement of Free Software in the Nordic countries.

Information wants to be free

Other participants in this network include Cypherpunks who educate people to use public-key cryptography to protect the privacy of their messages from corporate or governmental snooping and programmers who write free software and open source code.

J. T. S. Moore

He's known primarily for Revolution OS (2001), a film about the origins of the Free Software and open-source movements.

Joint Test Action Group

Tool vendors sometimes build products around free software like GCC and GDB, with GUI support frequently using Eclipse.

Knopper

Klaus Knopper (born 1968), a German electrical engineer and free software developer

NEODyS

A new web-interface is available running the free software PHP.

Olan

One Letter Aerobatic Notation, OLAN is free software for the design, drawing and viewing of aerobatic sequences; related to the Aresti Catalog Standards document

OpenBTS

It is written in C++ and released as free software under the terms of version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).

Partclone

It is developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan.

Plucker

FBReader - a free software FictionBook ebook reader which can also view Plucker and HTML files.

Redland RDF Application Framework

Redland is a set of free software libraries written in C that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF), created by Dave Beckett (a former resident of Redland, Bristol).

Server Message Block

Andrew Tridgell started the development of Samba, a free-software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol for Unix-like systems, in 1991.

SEUL

SEUL also hosts numerous free software projects and efforts, such as the WorldForge Project's website.

Spip

SPIP, a free software content management system named after the comics character

VLC

VLC media player, a free software cross-platform multimedia player and framework

Webuser

Topics covered include free software; PC security and maintenance; browser add-ons; the best Google tools; and the latest web trends and developments, such as Web 2.0 and social networking.

WildFly

In 1999, Marc Fleury started a free software project named EJB-OSS (stands for Enterprise Java Bean Open Source Software) implementing the EJB API from J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition).