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Introduction: open Source, Free Software, Free Software vs. Open
Source software, Public Domain Software, FOSS does not mean any cost.
History : BSD, The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project,
II Open Source History, Initiatives, Principle and methodologies.
Philosophy : Software Freedom, Open Source Development Model Licenses
and Patents: What Is A License, Important FOSS Licenses (Apache, BSD, GPL,
LGPL), copyrights and copylefts, Patents Economics of FOSS : Zero Marginal
Cost, Income-generation opportunities, Problems with traditional
commercial software, Internationalization
III Case Studies : Apache, BSD, Linux, Mozilla (Firefox), Wikipedia,
Joomla, GCC, Open Office.
IV Starting and Maintaining an Open Source Project, Open Source
Hardware, Open Source Design, Open source Teaching. and Open source media.
V Open source vs. closed source Open source government, Open source
ethics. Social and Financial impacts of open source technology, Shared
software, Shared source
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