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Open source "won" in a pre-Twitter, pre-GitHub, pre-Stack Overflow era. Today, building software in public means dealing with people (often, strangers) at le...
The LibreOffice project was announced with great fanfare in September 2010. Nearly one year later, the OpenOffice.org project (from which LibreOffice was forked) was cut loose from Oracle and found a new home as an Apache project. It is fair to say that the rivalry between the two projects in the time since then has been strong. Predictions that one project or the other would fail have not been borne out, but that does not mean that the two projects are equally successful. A look at the two projects' development communities reveals some interesting differences.
In that spirit, here are seven qualities that I consider essential to the identity of open source, contrasted with the diluted forms they commonly assume.
A free (libre), open-source (GNU GPL), content management platform designed for group collaboration. Open Atrium is based on Drupal (running on Apache, with a MySQL database).
provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. The libraries are intended to be widely useful, and are in regular use by thousands of programmers across a broad spectr
tries to bring vendors who use GPL licensed software in their products into license compliance. To achieve this goal, it uses a number of measures, ranging from warning letters over public documentation of GPL violations, up to legal proceedings.
an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. (IBM, HP, INTEL+)