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Open Source Resources

Many great stuff in the open srouce world:

Apache Software Foundation
http://www.apache.org/
The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. Some of its famous software are Apache web server, Tomcat servlet server, and Ant build tool

Eclipse Open Source
http://www.eclipse.org/
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.

Source Forge
http://sourceforge.net/
Home of open source projects for tons of software tools, - search to find your needs.

Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/
An open-source project for a free multiplatform and multilingual office suite compatible with all other major office suites; a killer of costly Microsoft Office.

Mozilla Projects
http://www.mozilla.org/
The open source Mozilla projects build many free, cool software including Firefox and Thunderbird.

Tigris Open Source Software Engineering
http://www.tigris.org/
Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development.

LAMP - Open Source Platform for Web Business
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Run your web business on the free open source platform LAMP - L for Linux operating system, A for Apache web server, M for MySQL database, and P for server scripting languages such as PHP, Perl , or Python.

Open Source Web Platform
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A list of most-used free open source web application platforms for today’s web business infrastructure.

Free Software Foundation
http://www.fsf.org/
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is dedicated to promoting computer users’ rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant. Its free software directory (http://directory.fsf.org/) is one of the most complete free software list.

Free Software Directory
http://directory.fsf.org/
The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This directory catalogs useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.

GNOME Foundation
http://foundation.gnome.org/
GNOME’s goal is to to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. GNOME is part of the GNU Project.

Plone Foundation
http://plone.org/foundation
The Plone Foundation exists to further the development, marketing, and legal affairs of the free open soruce Plone CMS and the Plone community.

Mambo Foundation
http://www.mambo-foundation.org/
Home of the free open source content management system Mambo.

GNU General Public License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Many free open source software systems and applications are licensed under GNU General Public License.