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• open source n. [common; also adj. `open-source'] Term coined in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use
  modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoid the negative connotations (to suits) of the term "free software"....
• The Movement Formerly Known As Open Source The battle over the Open Source trademark is heating up.
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• Brief History Of Linux (#21) The GNU Project Meet Richard M.
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• Microsoft Open Source Solitaire REDMOND, WA -- In a first attempt at "embrace-and-extend" of open source software
  Microsoft will release its popular Solitaire and FreeCell games as open source under the MILA (Microsoft Innovative License Agreement)....
• Humorix Holiday Gift Idea #2 Nerd Trading Cards Price
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• dogfood n. [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for testing.
  To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang noun derives) means to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday development environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and Netscape)....
• Open Source Irrational Constant BREEZEWOOD, PA -- In a revelation that could rock the foundations of science
  a researcher in Pennsylvania has discovered that the digits of the irrational constant PI encode a version of the Linux kernel....
• Brief History Of Linux (#2) Hammurabi's Open-Source Code Hammurabi became king of Babylonia around 1750BC.
  Under his reign, a sophisticated legal code developed...
• gnubie /noo'bee/ n. Written-only variant of newbie in common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.