More about open source

Links for those who wants to know more about open-source software

· The Free Software Foundation - Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs from material objects--such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline--in that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe software users should be able to make use of them.
· Open Source Initiative - Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source."
· Open for Business - Open for Business is a guide to help IT workers migrate from proprietary operating systems and software to open source technologies including Linux.
· Open Source Development Network - The Open Source Development Network is a metasite that links most of the news, software, business sites that deals with open-source software. OSDN delivers more than 160 million page views and reaches 9 million unique visitors per month.