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• free software n. As defined by Richard M. Stallman and used by the Free Software movement, this means software that gives users enough freedom to be used by the free software community.
  Specifically, users must be free to modify the software for their private use, and free to redistribute it either with or without modifications, either commercially or noncommercially, either gratis or charging a distribution fee....
• Rule of Open-Source Programming #8: Open-Source is not a panacea.
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  Software in the Public Interest and the Open Source Initiative both hold competing claims to the trademark....
• 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"....
• Open Source Beer Revolution Yesterday, Red Hat introduced an 'open source' beer called Red Brew.
  The recipes for making the beer are available for free over the Net, and microbrewery kits are available at low cost from Red Hat....
• Rule of Open-Source Programming #20: Open Code != Good Code
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• Microsoft Open Source Solitaire REDMOND, WA -- In a first attempt at "embrace-and-extend" of open source software
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