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OPEN SOURCE AUSTRALIA

What is Open Source?
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) is a form of computer software which is
developed and distributed by and for a community rather than by and for a
corporation or a private individual. This approach has revolutionary effects on
the software and the availability of software components for developing your own
programs.

Did Somebody Say “Free?”
FOSS involves freedom of use and modification (“free as in speech”) and so
freedom from cost (“free as in beer”) often follows although that is not
essential to the ethos. The important aspect is that the software not be chained
down by anyone, which is why Shared Source is not Open Source.

FOSS comes in two basic flavours, GPL-ish, which remains Free forever, and
BSD-ish, copies of which can be shut away again (but the originals cannot be
shut away). Each has their own specific benefits, advantages which traditional
closed-source or “proprietary” software cannot share.

Is there an Australian organisation?
We recommend visiting the OSI site for detailed descriptions of the various FOSS
licences and for news. This website is intended to remain a low-key contact and
referral point for FOSS oriented organisations and corporations within
Australia.

The two premier FOSS organisations at this point are Linux Australia and the
Australian Unix Users Group. If you have an organisation which you feel should
be mentioned here, also please tell us about it.

“Testimonial” 

Open Source technology has really helped grow our travel business: Simify also
knows as Sims Direct.

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Thanks to OSDC we implemented Open Source technology into our Reputation
management business.

We are also keeping a brief list of contacts in Australian FOSS-oriented
corporations and consultancies, although the fullest and most current lists will
be found housed in and maintained by LA and AUUG’s websites. We also work with
opcentral software that includes franchise management software.

What FOSS exists? Can I see some?
There are a few obvious and famous examples of FOSS like the Apache webserver
and the OpenOffice.org office suite that most people are aware of, but the full
range is truly enormous. The FreshMeat repository lists 43,000 projects (as at
June 2007) and SourceForge’s vaults contain 60,000. The Scientific Applications
on Linux site lists 3,000 specialised applications. While there must be a good
deal of overlap, that still misses projects in other places – for example, the
HPUX Porting Centres – which will run on Linux with few changes if any. We also
recommend using a business lms as an alternative to open source.

For the morbidly curious, we also have a small screenshot gallery. We have quite
a few open soft programs that even steel detailers can use to help create CAD
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