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unusual facts about open source


Typesafe Inc.

It provides an Open source platform for building Reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and Scala programming language—with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Scala IDE for Eclipse.


All rights reversed

The open source character Jenny Everywhere is released under an "All rights reversed" licence.

Andrew Plotkin

During 2006 he was involved in the open source on-line game platform Volity and has created, or assisted in the creation of, on-line versions of the pyramid game Treehouse and other Looney Labs titles to showcase the platform.

ArsDigita

The company produced a popular Open Source toolkit, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), for building database-backed community websites, and flourished at the peak of the Internet bubble.

Ashish Gulhati

He is an open source developer and the author of several extensions to the Perl programming language, including PerlVision, Crypt::GPG, Crypt::Schnorr::AuthSign, Persistence::Database::SQL and Persistence::Object::Postgres.

Conectiva

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Demand-side learning

Demand-side learning is a phrase coined by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat of Harvard Business School in the article Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? by Sean Silverthorne from June 6, 2005.

Dimdim

Dimdim was made available primarily as an enterprise edition and as a Virtual Machine appliance, but an open source community edition has also been made available to developers under the GNU General Public License (GPL), giving them the option to install and host Dimdim in their own networks.

Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold is the author of several books on Java and XML and the creator of XOM, an open source Java class library for processing XML data.

Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French Research Engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

Fidelity National Information Services

It is based on the open source GT.M—a transaction processing database engine maintained by the company.

Gdium

The Gdium netbook is marketed as an interface device to the Gdium "learning community" -- a website that provides hardware support, MIPS builds of Open Source software, Linux computing tips, and educational resources targeted towards teachers and students within the K-12 demographic.

Google Sky

On January 20, 2012, Google announced a student development partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and released Sky Map under the Apache 2.0 open source license.

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.

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.

JrMan

jrMan renderer is an open source version of the Reyes rendering algorithm used by Pixar's PhotoRealistic RenderMan, implemented in Java by Gerardo Horvilleur, Jorge Vargas, Elmer Garduno and Alessandro Falappa.

Longley Park Sixth Form College

The college also has a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which is powered by the Open Source Course Management System (CMS), Moodle.

Loomia

Loomia's content recommendation technology is built upon multiple Open Source technologies including Python, MySQL, Apache, and CentOS.

MedSLT

MedSLT is a medium-ranged open source spoken language translator developed by the University of Geneva and is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

MPQC

Three features distinguish it from other quantum chemistry programs such as Gaussian and GAMESS: it is open source, has an object-oriented design, and is created from the beginning as a parallel processing program.

Netpbm

It is included in all major open source Unix-like operating system distributions and also works on other Unix-like operating systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and other platforms.

New Era High School

The computer system, especially present in the Secondary Section, is Open Source based - highlighting Mandriva 2007 and Fedora Core 7, OpenOffice.org, and GIMP.

Nios II

Because the C/C++ development-chain is based on GCC, the vast majority of open source software for Linux compiles and runs with minimal or no modification.

NScripter

Due to its simplicity and its liberal license (while it is not open source, royalty-free commercial use is permitted), it quickly became popular in Japan, and was used for a number of high-profile commercial and dōjin titles, such as HaniHani and Tsukihime.

OCILIB

OCILIB is an open source and cross platform Oracle C library that delivers fast and reliable access to Oracle databases.

Open-Xchange

Development of Open-Xchange Server is mainly sponsored by Open-Xchange, Inc. in Olpe, Nürnberg, and New York together with implementation partners and the Open Source community around Open-Xchange Server.

OPIE user interface

OPIE (Open Palmtop Integrated Environment) is an open source graphical user interface for PDAs and other devices running Linux.

Orbitz

Both JBoss and Oracle WebLogic Server are used as application servers within their environment along with various other proprietary and 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.

Sleepycat Software

Sleepycat distributed Berkeley DB under a proprietary software license that included standard commercial features, and simultaneously under the newly created Sleepycat License, which allows open source use and distribution of Berkeley DB with a copyleft redistribution condition similar to the GNU General Public License.

Smart Bitrate Control

Nandub was a modification of the Open Source VirtualDub video encoder performed by Nando that incorporated SBC features.

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.

South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission

; Reducing Vulnerabilities in Pacific ACP states : This project, based on three components, Water, Risks and Aggregate, is also providing assistance in Bathymetry mapping, Remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems and the installation of open source web based map servers (Geospatial Content Management System) for fourteen Pacific Islands Countries.

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.

Sun Open Storage

Sun Open Storage was an open source computer data storage platform developed by Sun Microsystems.

Support Incident Tracker

Support Incident Tracker (commonly abbreviated to "SiT!") is an Open Source (GPL) web based application which uses PHP and MySQL for tracking technical support calls/emails.

TEV Project

TEV is an open source design for new, prefabricated, compact roads that would continually power conventional electric vehicles such as cars, taxis, vans and minibuses and allow them to operate under software control, creating a ‘driverless’ experience for the motorist.

The Institute for End User Computing

Its coordinating goal is to develop a new open source platform that is a simple, yet state of the art alternative to Windows, Unix, Linux, and the Mac OS.

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).

Ton Roosendaal

He is known as the original creator of the open-source 3D creation suite Blender and Traces (An Amiga ray tracer which was the forerunner of Blender), he is also known as the chairman of the Blender Foundation, and for pioneering large scale open-content projects.

Univa

Univa was founded in 2004 under the name Univa Corporation by Carl Kesselman, Ian Foster, and Steve Tuecke and was at that time primarily known for providing open source products and technical support based around the Globus Toolkit.

VEMS

Later source was under an open source license, however since 3.2 the system is effectively closed source.

Vertica

Several of Vertica’s features were originally prototyped within the C-Store column-oriented database, an academic open source research project at MIT and other universities.

Walnut Creek CDROM

Walnut Creek developed a close relationship with the FreeBSD Unix-like open source operating system project from its inception in 1993.

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.

Zachary Barth

Infiniminer is an open source multi-player block-based sandbox building and digging game, in which the player is a miner searching for minerals by carving tunnels through procedurally generated maps and building structures.


see also

Apache Hadoop

Pentaho - Open source data integration (Kettle), analytics, reporting, visualization and predictive analytics directly from Hadoop nodes

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

Cluster Exploratory

"The cluster will consist of 1,600 processors, several terabytes of memory, and hundreds of terabytes of storage, along with the software, including IBM's Tivoli and open source versions of Google File System and MapReduce".

Computational Resource for Drug Discovery

GDoQ: GDoQ (Prediction of GLMU inhibitors using QSAR and AutoDock) is an open source platform developed for predicting inhibitors against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.Tb) drug target N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GLMU) protein.

Computer Systems Research Group

The group was disbanded in 1995, though not without leaving a legacy - 386BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are all based on the 4.4BSD-Lite distribution and continue to play an important role in the open-source UNIX community today, including dictating the style of C programming used via KNF in the style man page.

Continuous integration

Strider: An open source continuous integration and deployment server written in node.js; BSD License

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.

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.

EConnectome

eConnectome (Electrophysiological Connectome) is an open-source MATLAB toolbox with graphical user interfaces for mapping and imaging brain functional connectivity at both the scalp and cortical levels from electrophysiological signals including electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocorticogram (ECoG).

FlaxUK

Flax provides independent open source search solutions based on the Xapian and Lucene/Solr platforms.

Gauss pseudospectral method

JModelica.org (Modelica-based open source platform for dynamic optimization)

GigaSpaces

GigaSpaces has also been an active participant in other open source projects, such as the Compass Project.

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.

IADB

Integrated Archaeological Database, an open source web based application for archaeological excavation projects

IFolder

On March 22, 2004, after their purchase of the Linux software companies Ximian and SUSE, Novell announced that they were releasing iFolder as an open source project under the GPL license.

Inktank Storage

CTO and founder Sage Weil started the open source Ceph project in 2004 for his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Internet Systems Consortium

ISC also expanded their operational activities to include Internet hosting facilities for other open source projects such as NetBSD, XFree86, kernel.org, secondary name service (SNS) for more than 50 top-level domains, and a DNS OARC (Operations, Analysis and Research Center) for monitoring and reporting of the Internet's DNS.

ISO Development Environment

The ISODE software was initially a public domain / open source implementation, lead by Marshall Rose.

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.

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.

Jspx-bay

jspx-bay, commonly referred to as jspx, is a free open source pure Java web RAD framework.

KMPlayer

Konqueror Media Player, an open-source media player software for KDE that runs on Unix-like operating systems

LibLime

Koha is a full-featured open-source integrated library system licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Lyle Estill

He purchased BLAST software from U.S. Robotics, helped found EMJ Internet, and was briefly involved with OpenNMS, an open source network management company founded by Tarus Balog.

Martin Michlmayr

In 2013, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Michlmayr, putting him in "the 'unsung heroes' category—the people who devote themselves to the important but not always glorious jobs that keep open source healthy".

Neo Geo

In December 2012, Tommo released a new Neo Geo handheld in North America and Europe with SNK Playmore license, It's a open source based handheld like Dingoo but closed to emulate Neo Geo games, with 20 built-in games, called the Neo Geo X.

Norconex

In 2013 Norconex released its first contribution to the open-source community with its HTTP Web crawler (named Norconex HTTP Collector).

Office123

Several open source projects served as a basis for development, including Egroupware, Adempiere, Asterisk, Roundcube, Joomla, and Alfresco.

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.

Open Source for America

It consists of various open source foundations, and companies, including GNOME, Mozilla, and Canonical.

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).

Open-source license

Jacobsen v. Katzer—CAFC 1001–2008 ruling states that legal copyrights can have $0 value – supports all licenses (commercial and open-source).

Open-source unionism

Open-source unionism is a term coined by academics Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers to explain a possible new model for organizing workers that depended on the labor movement"taking its own historical lessons with diversified membership seriously and relying more heavily on the Internet in membership communication and servicing."

OSCON

Oscon, Open Source CONtract, the most used open-contract in Italy.

OVC

Open Voting Consortium, a nonprofit group advocating for open-source electronic voting technology

Pascal Costanza

He is furthermore the initiator and lead of Closer, an open source project that provides a compatibility layer for the CLOS MOP across multiple Common Lisp implementations.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun released the software behind photo.net as a free open-source toolkit called the ArsDigita Community System, built on top of the Oracle relational database management system.

Sofa

Simulation Open Framework Architecture, an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time physical simulation

SpringSource

Acquisitions continued including RabbitMQ (an open-source AMQP message broker), Redis (an open source, noSQL key-value store) and Gemstone (developer of several data-management products).

Steve Kille

He has worked on Internet technologies since 1980, and was one of the principal engineers behind the ISO Development Environment (ISODE) open-source implementation of the OSI protocol stack.

Sulake

In its early days, Sulake developed and experimented with an open source Java based GNU called FUSE Light, an alternative to Macromedia's Flash.

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.

Takahashi method

Notably, Audrey Tang's stock presentations at Perl and Open Source conferences use this method.

The Death of Koschei the Deathless

The Morevna Project is an open-source/free-culture film project creating an animated adaptation using Synfig of this story reset in a cyberpunk science-fiction future.

UltraESB

# JMX based management/monitoring support and integration with the Zabbix open source monitoring solution

Verax IPMI

Verax IPMI in an open source Java library implementing IPMI protocol 2.0 over UDP.