Richard Stallman is the president and founder of the Free Software Foundation.Richard Stallman defines what free software is.

Eric Harrision speaks on Open Source in Education.

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Emma Jane Hogbin from HICKTech talks about Women in Open Source. Recorded at LUG Radio Live USA 2008 at the Metreon Theatre, San Francisco.

The Open Source world is rich with opportunities: Working with people of all cultures from all over the world.

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The Open Source Definition is used by the Open Source Initiative to determine whether or not a software license can be considered open source.The definition was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens.

Open Source Software is defined by its attached license guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute the software.

Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative. Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI’s Open Source Definition.

To summarize, the Definition model of distribution terms require that:

Free Redistribution

• No restrictions are placed on parties from selling of giving away the software.

Source Code Availability

• The software must include source code and must also allow for binary distributions when there is a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code. continue

Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and advocate in the open source community. He created the Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric S. Raymond.

In 2005, Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the invitation of the United Nations Development Program. He has appeared before national legislatures and is often quoted in the press, advocating for open source and the reform of national and international technology policy.
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