* OATS: Open Source Assistive Technology Software

* Adaptive Public License-an Open Source license from the University of Victoria

In 2008, after a chance meeting with CPAN admin Adam Kennedy at the Open Source Developers Conference, Linux kernel developer Rusty Russell created the CCAN, the Comprehensive C Archive Network.

Red Hat normally licenses the Cygwin library under the GNU General Public License version 3 with an exception to allow linking to any free and open source software whose license conforms to the Open Source Definition.

One Document Type Definition based on Dublin Core is the Open Source Metadata Framework ( OMF ) specification.

Raymond became a prominent voice in the open source movement and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998, taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public.

As head of the Open Source Initiative, he argued that advocates should focus on the potential for better products.

Raymond stepped down as the president of the Open Source Initiative in February 2005.

* Hamerly, Jim, Paquin, Tom and Walton, Susan ; Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla, in Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O ' Reilly, 1999.

* Moody, Glyn ; Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Basic Books 2002, 342pp, ISBN 978-0-7382-0333-1

The FSF also notes that " Open Source " has exactly one specific meaning in common English, namely that " ou can look at the source code.

" Stallman states that while the term " Free Software " can lead to two different interpretations, one of them is consistent with FSF definition of Free Software so there is at least some chance that it could be understood properly, unlike the term " Open Source ".

After this Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens founded the Open Source Initiative ( OSI ), to promote the term " open-source software " as an alternative term for free software.

Some free software advocates use the term Free and Open Source Software ( FOSS ) as an inclusive compromise, drawing on both philosophies to bring both free software advocates and open source software advocates together to work on projects with more cohesion.

The Open Source movement addresses software being open as a practical question as opposed to an ethical dilemma.

The Open Source movement ultimately determines that non-free software is not the solution of best interest.

* Open Source Initiative

* David M. Berry, Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source, Pluto Press, 2008, ISBN 0-7453-2414-2

* Johan Soderberg, Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 0-415-95543-2

This was also used by Open Source Initiative ( OSI ) under the name " The Open Source Definition ", the only change being that use of the term " free software " was replaced by OSI's alternative term for free software, " open-source software ".

The only proposed modern standard, GKOS ( or Global Keyboard Open Standard ) can support most characters and functions found on a computer keyboard but has had little commercial development.

SunSoft, HP, IBM and USL announced CDE in June 1993 as a joint development within the Common Open Software Environment ( COSE ) initiative.

* High Sign ( Freeware / Open Source-Currently in development, Supports plugins ) Last Update: Version Alpha Preview 2-Feb 23, 2009

* Open source, a software development model

The development of the POSIX standard takes place in the Austin Group, a joint working group linking the Open Group and the ISO organization.

Symbolics also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera for Tru64 UNIX on the HP Alpha.

Controversially, X11R6. 4 departed from the traditional liberal licensing terms, as the Open Group sought to assure funding for the development of X.

In 1994, after AT & T had sold UNIX System V to Novell and the rival Unix International consortium had disbanded, the Open Software Foundation ceased funding of research and development of OSF / 1.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary ( abbreviated CatB ) is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail.

Open standards rely on a broadly consultative and inclusive group including representatives from vendors, academicians and others holding a stake in the development.

These recommendations were adopted by T. C97 at the end of 1979 as the basis for the following development of standards for Open Systems Interconnectlon within ISO.

XNS predated and influenced the development of the Open Systems Interconnection ( OSI ) networking model.

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.

The Open Group provides a platform for its members to discuss their requirements, and work jointly on development and adoption of industry standards, to facilitate enterprise integration.

( Note: Some of The Open Group documents are only available to members, especially when they are under development.

The Open Group also provides a range of services to consortia and organizations, from initial organization set-up and ongoing operational support to collaboration, standards and best practices development, and assistance with market impact activities.

Ahmanson Ranch is now known as the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve and is protected from further development.

SCA-based infrastructure software and rapid development tools for SDR education and research are provided by the Open Source SCA Implementation-Embedded ( OSSIE ) project.

Initially, the initiative has been involved in the development of a technological framework and interoperability standards specifically for enhancing access to e-print archives, in order to increase the availability of scholarly communication ; OAI is, therefore, closely related to the Open access publishing movement.

The township's Open Space Program succeeded in acquiring large tracts of environmentally sensitive land which helped to slow the pace of development, preserve the environment and protect housing values.

Technologies which were produced primarily by OSF included ODE, the Open Development Environment-a flexible development, build and source control environment ; TET, the Test Environment Toolkit-an open framework for building and executing automated test cases ; and the operating system OSF / 1 MK from the OSF Research Institute based on the Mach3. 0 microkernel.

Although no porting work began toolkits like Open Inventor and OpenGL Performer were intended in future to be layered on Fahrenheit, meaning that they could deliver a single fully functional development system for Fahrenheit when it shipped, supporting both their existing customers as well as new ones.

The development of Free and Libre Open Source Software FLOSS is an example of collective action where individuals create a public good: the source code freely available to everyone.

* Nursing and Midwifery are part of a £ 250, 000 JISC / HEA programme to produce Open Educational Resources for continuing professional development ( TIGER ).

* Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside