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unusual facts about Open Source Software



BeOS R5.1d0

In a potential move towards releasing the system as open source software, many proprietary items had been removed: the MP3 encoder was replaced with LAME, and OpenSSL replaced the RSA Encryption Engine in the NetPositive web browser.

Design structure matrix

SonarQube the open source software quality platform has design structure matrix functionality included in it for analyzing your application.

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.

EBCDIC

Open-source-software advocate and hacker Eric S. Raymond writes in his Jargon File that EBCDIC was almost universally loathed by early hackers and programmers because of its multitude of different versions, none of which resembled the other versions, and that IBM produced it in direct competition with the already-established ASCII.

Eclipse Public License

The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is an open source software license used by the Eclipse Foundation for its 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.

JGraph

JGraph is a graph drawing open source software component written in the Java programming language; started by Gaudenz Alder as a University project in 2000 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

NetRexx

The syntax and object model of NetRexx differ from Object REXX, another IBM object-oriented variant of REXX which has been released as open source software.

PureMVC

The free, open source framework was originally implemented in the ActionScript 3 language for use with Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR, and it has since been ported to nearly all the major web development platforms.

Shawn McKenzie

Richard Shawn McKenzie (born February 20, 1971 in Paducah, Kentucky) is an Open Source Software programmer living in Katy, Texas in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area.

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.

Webfmt

Webfmt, is a platform-independent web-based Ajax File Manager for website, released as open source software under the GPL, LGPL, MPL by Fbis source.

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.

Ximian Desktop

It was made to be suitable for desktop and office-productivity environment, and it enabled businesses to use Linux and open source software for daily work.


see also

Adoption of free and open-source software by public institutions

The Portuguese Vieira do Minho Municipality began switching to free and open source software in 2000.

Archive of European Integration

The AEI system is powered by EPrints 3, free Open Source software developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.

AskoziaPBX

The project focus was to demonstrate the feasibility of building an embedded telephone system firmware upon Open Source software while providing a consumer usability experience.

Birla Institute of Applied Sciences

Training is also provided in Multisim, Ultiboard, MATLAB, PC-Hardware, PCB Designing, Open Source Software, AS/400 etc.

BIRT

BIRT Project (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools), an open source software project

Bishop Ireton High School

Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, venture capitalist and high-tech executive noted for promotion of open source software and reform of the U.S. patent system

Code Breakers

The Code-Breakers, a 2006 documentary film which investigates the use of open source software in the third world

Common Criteria

In a 2006 research paper, computer specialist David A. Wheeler suggested that the Common Criteria process discriminates against Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)-centric organizations and development models.

David P. Anderson

In 2002 he created the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing project, which develops an open-source software platform for volunteer computing.

Devicescape Software

Some of the company's products were based on open-source software, including the Linux kernel and wpa supplicant.

Enhydra

The Enhydra Server, an open source software application server developed by the Enhydra.org community.

FOSSAP

Cambodian deputy prime minister Sok An, in a speech delivered on his behalf, argued that Free and Open Source Software could help a country like Cambodia to have a "lot of savings in license fees", make software readily available locally and reduce usage costs drastically, eliminate software piracy, and enable Cambodian students to closely study the software code and "understand its behaviour".

Fosscomm

The third conference of free and open source software communities, FOSSCOMM 2010, took place on April 24–25, 2010 in Thessaloniki.

Gmod

Generic Model Organism Database, an open source software project for model organism databases

Google juice

Google Guice, an open source software framework for the Java platform

GOSCON

Speakers have included open-source software project leaders such as Brian Behlendorf, Larry Augustin and Ward Cunningham; government and university IT managers; academic researchers and corporate executives.

Grokline

It is run and edited by Pamela Jones and complements her Groklaw website, which acts as a focus for legal news of interest to the Free and Open Source Software communities, including in particular SCO Group's litigation against IBM and others and its attacks on Linux.

Heritage Key

Heritage Key uses a range of open source software, including content management system, Drupal, and online 3D simulation software, OpenSimulator.

HyperVM

On July 10, 2009, Kloxo and HyperVM was announced as open source software.

Institute of Rural Management Anand

Satish Babu (PRM3), Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS).

IT@School Project

The Project also engaged in giving training in Animation movie making skills entirely based on Free and Open Source Software such as KToon, Gimp, OpenShot Video Editor and Audacity.

Jisc

AccessApps – collection of portable open source software released by JISC RSC Scotland North&south

Ma3bar

#Capacity building by providing the necessary training and assistance in developing the necessary skills and competences in the public and the private sectors, as well as in non-government organizations, and encouraging the inclusion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) courses as part of the standard course offerings in universities as well as networking the various FOSS communities that exist in the Arab Region.

Markus Neteler

In September 2006, he was honored with the Sol Katz award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) for his commitment to the GRASS project coordination.

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community.

Open-source brand

Examples include open source software projects such as the GNU project, the Apache Software Foundation, and Linux (protected via the Linux Mark Institute).

PopHealth

The popHealth open source software is currently being designed and developed by the MITRE Corporation, using components of the MITRE free open source Laika EHR testing framework.

Support Incident Tracker

In 2005, version 3.21 was released as free and open source software under the GNU General Public License and a Freecode project was created.

Swig

SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator), an open source software tool

UPortal

It is sponsored by Jasig, a consortium of educational institutions and commercial affiliates sponsoring open source software projects focused on higher education.

Urs Hölzle

In 2012, Hölzle introduced "the G-Scale Network" on which Google had begun managing its petabyte-scale internal data flow via OpenFlow, an open source software system jointly devised by scientists at Stanford and the UC Berkeley and promoted by the Open Networking Foundation.

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).