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Contains some informative articles about Open Source software, success stories, and news
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Non-profit public organization that works to promote the usage of Free and Open Source software in Lithuania.
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Explains one person's experiences with open source.
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The Canadian Association for Open Source.
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Contains the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which are regarded as compliance rules for free software by many others besides Debian package maintainers.
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Makes political and ethical case for adopting free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International. Applies generally to development agencies and other groups with like values.
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Provides a brief introduction to open source software, applications, programs, and case studies.
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Focuses on connections between free software and community development and on free software in Australia.
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Web site of the FSF Europe, an organization dedicated to Free Software activities in Europe. As the official sister organization of the Free Software Foundation in the United States, it will build its activities around the GNU Project although it won't be limited to it.
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Information about Free Software movement for novices.
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Official list of GNU Free software.
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South African Open Source awareness campaign promoting Open Source software within households and small businesses.
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At Harvard Law School. A research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Highly active in Internet Public Policy.
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A United Nations Development Programme advocacy site for free and open source software, focused on the Asia-Pacific region.
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Urges initiative and good manners to promote open source.
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A portal covering and advocating the open source movement, software and new developments. Includes forum, news, articles, downloads and related resources.
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Replacements for Microsoft software, services and hardware. Includes reviews and outside links.
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Article describing the philosophy and hidden agenda of anti-open source think tanks.
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Promotes adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) in the nonprofit/NGO sector.
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Provides guidance about free and open source software, and about related standards.
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Weblog about the world of Open Source by the guy responsible for building the Novell user community.
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Community portal providing a discussion forum, articles and blogs.
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Dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source trademark for the good of the community. Includes a definition of 'Open Source', and a list of approved licenses.
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A weblog by Daniel Aleksandersen about free software, free speech, GNU/Linux, and online privacy.
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Non-profit organization created to promote the adoption of open source solutions within U.S. agencies and academic entities.
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by C. Justin Seiferth, Maj USAF; a study for the Air Command and Staff College Air University. Military implications of Open Licenses.
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A resource for building Open Source Web sites, covering Linux, BSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. OpenDeveloper.org is an independent Web site about open source development of Web sites -- by the community, for the community.
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A group of volunteers based in the UK which hopes to find ways of bringing the benefits of Open Source Software to the voluntary / community sector.
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A global effort to promote the use of free and Open Source software. Lists forthcoming events, news, forum, gallery and contributing teams.
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Aims to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. Includes news, details of supported projects, and membership details.
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A small community site containing a weblog and tutorials.
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Aims to develop a community of IT professionals, students, and entrepreneurs. Includes the list of projects, members, forums, and answers to frequently asked questions.
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Eric S. Raymond's seminal paper analysing why open source works so well; followup papers "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "The Revenge of the Hackers"; and comments and criticisms from third parties.
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Raising public awareness about past and present infringement of GPL licensed software. Includes profile, news and events.
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Microsoft are getting very worried indeed about competition from Open Source Software such as Linux. This leaked internal memo, courtesy of Eric Raymond, reveals all -- including the extreme lengths Microsoft is willing to go to squash its competition.
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The Open Science Project is an Organization devoted to providing open source scientific software.
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A web lifestyle magazine with a focus on free software, digital rights and the art and craft of programming for the real world.
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Amusing strip following the antics of Columbia Internet and its employees. Frequently touches on Open Source, Linux, hacker culture, and holy wars.
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Communications community site dedicated to providing a forum for open source software used in datacom and telecom environments.
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Fans of free software and music found some allies this weekend who said if lawmakers don't understand technology they shouldn't try and regulate it.
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In-depth review and analysis of the many quantitative reasons to use open source software, with statistics from a variety of recent surveys.
