Opening mind with Open source

Nearly every week, if not every day, there are more and more open source and open educational resources available and accessible to us. It's impossible to ignore. It also seems impossible to keep pace with the sheer volume.

Elementary, middle, and high school students Higher, tertiary, and vocational education Special needs and gifted students Public or private school students Homeschoolers or unschoolers Parents, teachers, and administrators

People install pirated software and feel unsafe, at least in the corner of their minds because they know that they are doing wrong. But with FOSS, there are no headaches or anything. FOSS is a huge community-backed arena. We can just download it and install it for free. And it is absolutely legal.

Open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open

In brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. To be approved by the Open Source Initiative (also known as the OSI), a license must go through the Open Source Initiative's license review process.

Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Free Redistribution Source Code Integrity of The Author's Source Code No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

The International Network of Free/Libre/Open Source Software Competence Centers, or FLOSSCC network, is a collaborative network of FLOSS Competence Centers around the world that promote Open Source in their respective geographical regions.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a nonprofit corporation with global scope formed to educate about, and advocate, for the benefits of open source, and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.

 What

is "free software" and is it the same as "open source"?

Sometimes also called Free/Libre Open Source Software, Free Software, or just Open Source. FOSS, is the new world trend where people are conscious of their resources and are not willing to pay huge bucks to software companies to use their software.

FOSS is increasingly the go-to standard for operating systems to user applications, for individuals to large enterprises. It helps reduce costs, avoid lock-in, increase productivity, enhance security, and improve standards compliance.

Open source software is FOSS that uses any license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in their convenient list of open source licenses.

The General Public License (GPL) is the original FOSS license, and GPL software is simply FOSS software that is covered by the GPL .

Open source applications are now available for every common type of enterprise software -- from databases, application servers and Web servers, to Web browsers and office applications, to network monitoring software and security software.

The quality of open source software met or exceeded the expectations of 92 percent of respondents. More economical acquisition and deployment model allows organizations to dedicate greater portions of their budgets to customizations and innovations that really matter. Open source applications can be even more secure than their commercial equivalents.

In a nutshell, open source software has been proven to provide better value, lower costs, and improved security, addressing the most important enterprise considerations today.

Firefox (web browser based on Mozilla) Thunderbird (mail client based on Mozilla code) MySQL (database) PHP (web development) Perl (programming/scripting language) PostgreSQL (database) Python (programming/scripting language) Sakai (learning management system) Samba (file and print server)

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