X-Nico

unusual facts about open source code



China–Finland relations

Linux, the open source code first developed by Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds, is playing a major role in the development of China’s IT sector – and in the country’s rapid industrial development as a whole.


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Jonathan Greenblatt

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, helped to sponsor the organization and the open-source code was utilized by serve.gov.

Preprocessor

grompp, a preprocessor for simulation input files for GROMACS (a fast, free, open-source code for some problems in computational chemistry) which calls the system C preprocessor (or other preprocessor as determined by the simulation input file) to parse the topology, using mostly the #define and #include mechanisms to determine the effective topology at grompp run time.