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The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages . A main principle of
is , with products such as source code, , and documentation freely available to the public. The open-source movement in software began as a response to the limitations of proprietary code. The model is used for projects such as in , and open-source drug discovery.
Open source promotes universal access via an
to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint. Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms. Open source gained hold with the rise of the . The
arose to clarify , , , and consumer issues.
Generally, open source refers to a
in which the
is available to the general public for use or modification from its original design. Open-source code is meant to be a collaborative effort, where programmers improve upon the source code and share the changes within the community. Code is released under the terms of a . Depending on the license terms, others may then download, modify, and publish their version (fork) back to the community.
Many large formal institutions have sprung up to support the development of the open-source movement, including the , which supports community projects such as the open-source framework
and the open-source
The sharing of technical information predates the
and the personal computer considerably. For instance, in the early years of automobile development a group of capital
owned the rights to a
gasoline-engine patent originally filed by . By controlling this patent, they were able to monopolize the industry and force car manufacturers to adhere to their demands, or risk a lawsuit.
In 1911, independent automaker
won a challenge to the Selden patent. The result was that the Selden patent became virtually worthless and a new association (which would eventually become the ) was formed. The new association instituted a cross-licensing agreement among all US automotive manufacturers: although each company would develop technology and file patents, these patents were shared openly and without the exchange of money among all the manufacturers. By the time the US entered , 92 Ford patents and 515 patents from other companies were being shared among these manufacturers, without any exchange of money (or lawsuits).
Early instances of the free sharing of source code include 's source releases of its
and other programs in the 1950s and 1960s, and the
user group that formed to facilitate the exchange of software. Beginning in the 1960s,
researchers used an open "" (RFC) process to encourage feedback in early telecommunication network protocols. This led to the birth of the early Internet in 1969.
The sharing of source code on the Internet began when the Internet was relatively primitive, with software distributed via , , , and . , for example, was first widely distributed by posts to comp.os.linux on the Usenet, which is also where its development was discussed.
followed in this model.
The term "open source" was first proposed by a group of people in the
who were critical of the political agenda and moral philosophy implied in the term "free software" and sought to reframe the discourse to reflect a more commercially minded position. In addition, the ambiguity of the term "free software" was seen as discouraging business adoption. The group included , , , , ,
and . Peterson suggested "open source" at a meeting held at , in reaction to 's announcement in January 1998 of a source code release for .
gave his support the following day, and Phil Hughes backed the term in . , the founder of the free software movement, initially seemed to adopt the term, but later changed his mind. Netscape released its source code under the
and later under the .
Raymond was especially active in the effort to popularize the new term. He made the first public call to the free software community to adopt it in February 1998. Shortly after, he founded The
in collaboration with .
The term gained further visibility through an event organized in April 1998 by technology publisher . Originally titled the "Freeware Summit" and later known as the "Open Source Summit", the event was attended by the leaders of many of the most important free and open-source projects, including Linus Torvalds, , , , , , , , and Eric Raymond. At that meeting, alternatives to the term "free software" were discussed. Tiemann argued for "sourceware" as a new term, while Raymond argued for "open source". The assembled developers took a vote, and the winner was announced at a press conference the same evening.
"Open source" has never managed to entirely supersede the older term "free software", giving rise to the combined term
Some economists agree that open-source is an
or "knowledge good" with original work involving a significant amount of time, money, and effort. The cost of reproducing the work is low enough that additional users may be added at zero or near zero cost – this is referred to as the
of a product.
creates a monopoly so the price charged to consumers can be significantly higher than the marginal cost of production. This allows the author to recoup the cost of making the original work. Copyright thus creates access costs for consumers who value the work more than the marginal cost but less than the initial production cost. Access costs also pose problems for authors who wish to create a —such as a copy of a software program modified to fix a bug or add a feature, or a
of a song—but are unable or unwilling to pay the copyright holder for the right to do so.
Being organized as effectively a "", open source eliminates some of the access costs of consumers and creators of derivative works by reducing the restrictions of copyright. Basic economic theory predicts that lower costs would lead to higher consumption and also more frequent creation of derivative works. Organizations such as
host websites where individuals can file for alternative "licenses", or levels of restriction, for their works. These self-made protections free the general society of the costs of policing copyright infringement.
Others argue that since consumers do not pay for their copies, creators are unable to recoup the initial cost of production and thus have little economic incentive to create in the first place. By this argument, consumers would lose out because some of the goods they would otherwise purchase would not be available. In practice, content producers can choose whether to adopt a proprietary license and charge for copies, or an open license. Some goods which require large amounts of professional research and development, such as the
(which depends largely on , not copyright for intellectual property protection) are almost exclusively proprietary, although increasingly sophisticated technologies are being developed on open-source principles.
There is evidence that open-source development creates enormous value. For example, in the context of
design, digital designs are shared for free and anyone with access to digital manufacturing technologies (e.g.
3D printers) can replicate the product for the cost of materials. The original sharer may receive feedback and potentially improvements on the original design from the
community.
Alternative arrangements have also been shown to result in good creation outside of the proprietary license model. Examples include:[]
Wikipedia is an example of a global application of the open source model.
Creation for its own sake – For example,
editors add content for recreation. Artists have a drive to create. Both communities benefit from free starting material.
Voluntary after-the-fact donations – used by , , and
in the United States.[]
Patron – For example,
publishing relies on institutional and government funding of research faculty, who also have a professional incentive to publish for reputation and career advancement. Works of the U.S. federal government are automatically released into the .[]
– Give away a limited version for free and charge for a premium version (potentially using a ).
Give away the product and charge something related – Charge for support of open-source , give away music but charge for concert admission.[]
Give away work in order to gain market share – Used by artists, in corporate software to spoil a dominant competitor (for example in the
and the ).[]
For own use – Businesses or individual software developers often create software to solve a problem, bearing the full cost of initial creation. They will then open source the solution, and benefit from the improvements others make for their own needs. Communalizing the maintenance burden distributes the co
can also benefit without undermining the creation process.
Open-source model application domains
Social and political views have been affected by the growth of the concept of open source. Advocates in one field often support the expansion of open source in other fields. But
and other founders of the
have sometimes publicly argued against speculation about applications outside software, saying that strong arguments for software openness should not be weakened by overreaching into areas where the story may be less compelling. The broader impact of the open-source movement, and the extent of its role in the development of new information sharing procedures, remain to be seen.
has inspired increased
and liberty in
research, for example by . Even the research methodologies themselves can benefit from the application of open-source principles. It has also given rise to the rapidly-expanding
is an open-source 3D graphics editor.
, the most popular mobile operating system (as of Nov 2012)
is software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Open-source code can evolve through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers as well as large companies. Some of the individual programmers who start an open-source project may end up establishing companies offering products or services incorporating open-source programs.[] Examples of open-source software products are:
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is hardware whose initial specification, usually in a software format, are published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the hardware and source code without paying royalties or fees. Open-source hardware evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual hardware/software developers, hobbyists, as well as very large companies. Examples of open-source hardware initiatives are:
: a family of open-source , including the hardware specification and the .
: an open-source microprocessor family, with architecture specification licensed under
and implementation under .
T1 Multicore processor. Sun has released it under GPL.
, a microcontroller platform for hobbyists, artists and designers.
, an open-source development platform for the embed the site includes code downloads and hardware schematics along with free user guides, spec sheets and other documentation.
, an open hardware , designed in
for use in environments where computing devices such as personal computers are deemed inappropriate.
: A family of open-source microprocessors distributed in a library with peripheral , open
V8 specification, implementation available under .
: A system of open-source stackable microcontroller building blocks. Allows to control motors and read out sensors with the programming languages C, C++, C#, Object Pascal, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby over a USB or Wifi connection on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. All of the hardware is licensed under
(CERN Open Hardware License).
: designs for computer data center including power supply, Intel motherboard, AMD motherboard, chassis, racks, battery cabinet, and aspects of electrical and mechanical design.
, an open-source .
in 2011. The recipe is available for free.
Some publishers of
journals have argued that
studies should be freely available to aid . A number of people have published creative commons licensed recipe books.
– cola soft drinks, similar to
and , whose recipe is open source and developed by volunteers. The taste is said to be comparable to that of the standard beverages. Most corporations producing beverages hold their formulas as closely guarded secrets.
(originally Vores ?l) – is an open-source beer created by students at the
together with , an artist collective, to illustrate how open-source concepts might be applied outside the digital world.
In 2002, the beer company
in Australia started an open-source brewery and invited the general population to be involved in the development and ownership of the brewery, and to vote on the development of every aspect of its beer, Blowfly, and its road to market. In return for their feedback and input, individuals received shares in the company, which is now publicly traded on a stock exchange in Australia. The company has always adhered to its open-source roots and is the only beer company in the world that allows the public to design, customise and develop its own beers online.
– Sites such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary have embraced the open-content
content licenses. These licenses were designed to adhere to principles similar to various open-source software development licenses. Many of these licenses ensure that content remains free for re-use, that source documents are made readily available to interested parties, and that changes to content are accepted easily back into the system. Important sites embracing open-source-like ideals are
and , both of which post many books on which the copyright has expired and are thus in the , ensuring that anyone has free, unlimited access to that content.
SketchUp's open-source 3D Warehouse library
is an open catalog for the IT, CE and Lighting sectors with product data-sheets based on
agreement. The digital content are distributed in XML and URL formats.
is an open-source design community centered around the use of proprietary software that's free.
invites students every year to use its three-storey Christie
wall as a digital canvas for their creative work.
Pharmaceuticals – There have been several proposals for open-source pharmaceutical development, which led to the establishment of the Tropical Disease Initiative and the Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria Consortium.
Genomics – The term "open-source genomics" refers to the combination of rapid release of sequence data (especially raw reads) and crowdsourced analyses from bioinformaticians around the world that characterised the analysis of the .
– OpenEMR is an ONC-ATB Ambulatory EHR
certified electronic health records and medical practice management application. It features fully integrated electronic health, records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, and is the base for many EHR programs.
Research – The
was created as an alternative to the expensive legal costs of sharing and reusing scientific works in journals etc.
Research –
was created to increase the ability for students to participate in the research process by providing them access to microfunding – which, in turn, offers non-researchers the opportunity to directly invest, and follow, cutting-edge scientific research. All data and methodology is subsequently published in an openly accessible manner under a Creative Commons fair use license.
Research –
(OSOTF) is a grid-connected
test system, which continuously monitors the output of a number of photovoltaic modules and correlates their performance to a long list of highly accurate meteorological readings. The OSOTF is organized under open-source principles – All data and analysis is to be made freely available to the entire photovoltaic community and the general public.
Engineering – , a form of high-speed transport proposed by entrepreneur , which he describes as "an elevated, reduced-pressure tube that contains pressurized capsules driven within the tube by a number of linear electric motors".
Construction –
is an open-source project for designing and building .
Energy research - The
promotes open-source models and open data in energy research and policy advice.
An open-source robot is a
whose blueprints, schematics, or source code are released under an open-source model.
- this code base is growing rapidly, with adoption in Portland, New York, The Netherlands and Helsinki.
– a greater level of 'super-architecture' ambition, to bring a range of open source projects together, in order to deliver 'Mobility as a Service'
– In June 2013, an open-source eyewear brand, Botho, has started trading under the UK based Open Optics Ltd company.
is an open-source hardware laptop reference design.
Open-source principles can be applied to technical areas such as digital communication protocols and data storage formats.
– which involves applying open-source methodologies to the design of artifacts and systems in the physical world. It is very nascent but has huge potential.
(OSAT) refers to technologies that are designed in the same fashion as . These technologies must be "" (AT) – meaning technology that is designed with special consideration to the environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, and economic aspects of the community it is intended for. An example of this application is the use of open-source 3D printers like the
to manufacture appropriate technology.
– which involves applying the concepts of open source to instruction using a shared web space as a platform to improve upon learning, organizational, and management challenges. An example of an Open-source courseware is the Java Education & Development Initiative (JEDI). Other examples include
and . At the university level, the use of
classroom projects has been shown to be successful in forging the connection between science/engineering and social benefit: This approach has the potential to use university students' access to resources and testing equipment in furthering the development of . Similarly OSAT has been used as a tool for improving .
There are few examples of business information (methodologies, advice, guidance, practices) using the open-source model, although this is another case where the potential is enormous.
is close to open source. It uses the Cathedral model (no mechanism exists for user contribution) and the content must be bought for a fee that is small by business consulting standards (hundreds of British pounds). Various checklists are published by government, banks or accounting firms.
An open-source group emerged in 2012 that is attempting to design a firearm that may be downloaded from the internet and "printed" on a . Calling itself , the group wants to facilitate "a working plastic gun that could be downloaded and reproduced by anybody with a 3D printer".
Agrecol, a German NGO has developed an open-source licence for seeds operating with
and created OpenSourceSeeds as a respective service provider. Breeders that apply the license to their new invented material prevent it from the threat of privatisation and help to establish a commons-based breeding sector as an alternative to the commercial sector.
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The rise of open-source culture in the 20th century resulted from a growing tension between creative practices that involve require access to content that is often , and restrictive intellectual property laws and policies governing access to copyrighted content. The two main ways in which intellectual property laws became more restrictive in the 20th century were extensions to the term of copyright (particularly in the ) and penalties, such as those articulated in the
(DMCA), placed on attempts to circumvent anti-piracy technologies.
Although artistic appropriation is often permitted under
doctrines, the complexity and ambiguity of these doctrines creates an atmosphere of uncertainty among cultural practitioners. Also, the protective actions of copyright owners create what some call a "" among cultural practitioners.
The idea of an "open-source" culture runs parallel to "," but is substantively different. Free culture is a term derived from the , and in contrast to that vision of culture, proponents of open-source culture (OSC) maintain that some intellectual property law needs to exist to protect cultural producers. Yet they propose a more nuanced position than corporations have traditionally sought. Instead of seeing intellectual property law as an expression of instrumental rules intended to uphold either natural rights or desirable outcomes, an argument for OSC takes into account diverse goods (as in "the Good life") and ends.
Sites such as
offer up free web space for anyone willing to license their work under a
license. The resulting cultural product is then available to download free (generally accessible) to anyone with an Internet connection. Older analog technologies such as the
have limitations on the kind of interaction users can have.
Through various technologies such as
networks and , cultural producers can take advantage of vast
to distribute their products. As opposed to traditional media distribution, redistributing digital media on the Internet can be virtually costless. Technologies such as
take advantage of various characteristics of the Internet protocol () in an attempt to totally decentralize file distribution.
(sometimes known as Open-source politics) is a political process that uses Internet technologies such as blogs, email and polling to provide for a rapid feedback mechanism between political organizations and their supporters. There is also an alternative conception of the term Open-source politics which relates to the development of public policy under a set of rules and processes similar to the open-source software movement.
is similar to open-source politics, but it applies more to the democratic process and promotes the freedom of information.
wants to increase its use of free and open-source software, in order to decrease its dependence on proprietary software solutions. It plans to make open standards a requirement, to allow the government to choose between multiple operating systems and web browsers. Korea's Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning is also preparing ten pilots on using open-source software distributions.
Open-source ethics is split into two strands:
Open-source ethics as an ethical school – Charles Ess and David Berry are researching whether ethics can learn anything from an open-source approach. Ess famously even defined the AoIR Research Guidelines as an example of open-source ethics.
Open-source ethics as a professional body of rules – This is based principally on the computer ethics school, studying the questions of ethics and professionalism in the computer industry in general and software development in particular.
Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has used the term "open-source Hinduism" to refer to the way historical figures such as Mohandas Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda worked upon this ancient tradition.
formerly referred to the standard journalistic techniques of news gathering and fact checking, reflecting
a similar term used in military intelligence circles. Now, open-source journalism commonly refers to forms of innovative publishing of , rather than the sourcing of news stories by a professional journalist. In the 25 December 2006 issue of TIME magazine this is referred to as
and listed alongside more traditional open-source projects such as
, or blogs, are another significant platform for open-source culture. Blogs consist of periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts, using a technology that makes webpages easily updatable with no understanding of design, code, or
required. While corporations, political campaigns and other formal institutions have begun using these tools to distribute information, many blogs are used by individuals for personal expression, political organizing, and socializing. Some, such as
or , utilize open-source software that is open to the public and can be modified by users to fit their own tastes. Whether the code is open or not, this format represents a nimble tool for people to borrow and re- whereas traditional websites made the illegal reproduction of culture difficult to regulate, the mutability of blogs makes "open sourcing" even more uncontrollable since it allows a larger portion of the population to replicate material more quickly in the public sphere.
are another platform for open-source culture. Messageboards (also known as discussion boards or forums), are places online where people with similar interests can congregate and post messages for the community to read and respond to. Messageboards sometimes have moderators who enforce community standards of etiquette such as banning users who are . Other common board features are private messages (where users can send messages to one another) as well as chat (a way to have a real time conversation online) and image uploading. Some messageboards use , which is a free open-source package. Where blogs are more about individual expression and tend to revolve around their authors, messageboards are about creating a conversation amongst its users where information can be shared freely and quickly. Messageboards are a way to remove intermediaries from everyday life—for instance, instead of relying on commercials and other forms of advertising, one can ask other users for frank reviews of a product, movie or CD. By removing the cultural middlemen, messageboards help speed the flow of information and exchange of ideas.
for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), , charts, and presentations. Organizations and individuals that store their data in an open format such as OpenDocument avoid being
a single software vendor, leaving them free to switch software if their current vendor goes out of business, raises their prices, changes their software, or changes their
terms to something less favorable.
is either an open call system in which a changing crew and cast collaborate in movie production, a system in which the end result is made available for re-use by others or in which exclusively open-source products are used in the production. The 2006 movie
is said to be the "world's first open movie", created entirely using .
An open-source documentary film has a production process allowing the open contributions of archival material , and other filmic elements, both in unedited and edited form, similar to crowdsourcing. By doing so, on-line contributors become part of the process of creating the film, helping to influence the editorial and visual material to be used in the documentary, as well as its thematic development. The first open-source documentary film is the non-profit "", which went into development in 2006, and will examine the role media played in the cultural, social and political changes from 1968 to 1974 through the story of radio station WBCN-FM in Boston. The film is being produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media and the non-profit Filmmakers Collaborative. Open Source Cinema is a website to create Basement Tapes, a feature documentary about copyright in the digital age, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
refers to a form of film-making that takes a method of idea formation from open-source software, but in this case the 'source' for a filmmaker is raw unedited footage rather than programming code. It can also refer to a method of film-making where the process of creation is 'open' i.e. a disparate group of contributors, at different times contribute to the final piece.
that is not limited to one recording studio, production studio, or cast. Open-IPTV uses the Internet or other means to pool efforts and resources together to create an online community that all contributes to a show.
Within the academic community, there is discussion about expanding what could be called the "intellectual commons" (analogous to the ). Proponents of this view have hailed the
Project at ,
project at , 's article on "open-source DNA", the "Open Source Cultural Database", 's
as examples of applying open source outside the realm of computer software.
are instructional resources whose digital source can be freely used, distributed and modified.
Another strand to the academic community is in the area of research. Many funded research projects produce software as part of their work. There is an increasing interest in making the outputs of such projects available under an open-source license. In the UK the
has developed a policy on open-source software. JISC also funds a development service called
which acts as an advisory service for higher and further education institutions wishing to use, contribute to and develop open-source software.
On 30 March 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which included $2 billion over four years to fund the , which is described as "the largest OER (open education resources) initiative in the world and uniquely focused on creating curricula in partnership with industry for credentials in vocational industry sectors like manufacturing, health, energy, transportation, and IT".
The principle of sharing pre-dates the open- for example, the free sharing of information has been institutionalized in the scientific enterprise since at least the 19th century. Open-source principles have always been part of the scientific community. The sociologist
described the four basic elements of the community—universal ism (an international perspective), communal ism (sharing information), disinterestedness (removing one's personal views from the scientific inquiry) and organized skepticism (requirements of proof and review) that accurately describe the scientific community today.
These principles are, in part, complemented by US law's focus on protecting expression and method but not the ideas themselves. There is also a tradition of publishing research results to the scientific community instead of keeping all such knowledge proprietary. One of the recent initiatives in scientific publishing has been —the idea that research should be published in such a way that it is free and available to the public. There are currently many open access journals where the information is available free online, however most journals do charge a fee (either to users or libraries for access). The
is an international effort with the goal of making all research articles available free on the Internet.
has recently proposed a policy on "Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information". This policy would provide a free, searchable resource of NIH-funded results to the public and with other international repositories six months after its initial publication. The NIH's move is an important one because there is significant amount of public funding in scientific research. Many of the questions have yet to be answered—the balancing of profit vs. public access, and ensuring that desirable standards and incentives do not diminish with a shift to open access.
Farmavita.Net is a community of pharmaceuticals executives that has recently proposed a new business model of open-source pharmaceuticals. The project is targeted to development and sharing of know-how for manufacture of essential and life-saving medicines. It is mainly dedicated to the countries with less developed economies where local pharmaceutical research and development resources are insufficient for national needs. It will be limited to generic (off-patent) medicines with established use. By the definition, medicinal product have a "well-established use" if is used for at least 15 years, with recognized efficacy and an acceptable level of safety. In that event, the expensive clinical test and trial results could be replaced by appropriate scientific literature.
was an early contributor eventually donating all his inventions including the , , and the
to the public domain.
New NGO communities are starting to use the open-source technology as a tool. One example is the Open Source Youth Network started in 2007 in Lisboa by ISCA members.
is also a new emerging concept which advocate putting R&D in a common pool. The
platform is openly presenting itself as an Open innovation network.
Copyright protection is used in the performing arts and even in athletic activities. Some groups have attempted to remove copyright from such practices.
In 2012, Russian music composer, scientist and Russian Pirate Party member Victor Argonov presented detailed raw files of his electronic opera "2032" under free license . This opera was originally composed and published in 2007 by Russian label
as a commercial product, but then the author changed its status to free. In his blog
he said that he decided to open raw files (including wav, midi and other used formats) to the public in order to support worldwide pirate actions against
and . Several Internet resources, called "2032" the first open-source musical opera in history.
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The following are events and applications that have been developed via the open source community, and echo the ideologies of the open source movement.
 — an organization composed of various colleges that support open source and share some of their material online. This organization, headed by , was established to aid in the exchange of open source educational materials.
 — user-generated
with sister projects in academic areas, such as  — a community dedicated to the creation and exchange of learning materials[]
 — prior to the existence of
Beta, this was the first supplier of
and the very first free library project[]
Synthetic Biology- Synthetic Biology is considered the feasibility of the open source movement. This new technology is important and exciting because it promises to enable cheap, lifesaving new drugs as well as helping to yield biofuels that may help to solve our energy problem. Although synthetic biology has not yet come out of its "lab" stage, it has great potential to become industrialized in the near future. In order to industrialize open source science, there are some scientists who are trying to build their own brand of it.
is a movement that is similar in ideology to the open source movement. Members of this movement maintain that academic material should be readily available to provide help with “future research, assist in teaching and aid in academic purposes.” The Open access movement aims to eliminate subscription fees and licensing restrictions of academic materials
is a movement that seeks to achieve a culture that engages in collective freedom via freedom of expression, free public access to knowledge and information, full demonstration of creativity and innovation in various arenas and promotion of citizen liberties.[]
is an organization that “develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.” It encourages the use of protected properties online for research, education, and creative purposes in pursuit of a universal access. Creative Commons provides an infrastructure through a set of copyright licenses and tools that creates a better balance within the realm of “all rights reserved” properties. The Creative Commons license offers a slightly more lenient alternative to “all rights reserved” copyrights for those who do not wish to exclude the use of their material.
is an international social movement that advocates a transition into a
"resource-based economy" based on
in which monetary incentives are replaced by commons-based ones with everyone
to everything (from code to products) as in "open source everything". While its activism and events are typically focused on media and education, TZM is a major supporter of open source projects worldwide since they allow for uninhibited advancement of science and technology, independent of constraints posed by institutions of patenting and capitalist investment.
is an “international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting
in a very broad sense”. Its objectives incorporate those of the open source movement, whose principles are integrated in a larger socio-economic model.
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