The Open Source Initiative is dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source trademark for the good of the community. The phrase `open source' has been registered as a certification mark. You can examine the Open Source Definition, which defines some essential properties that Open Source licenses will have. You can read about software that qualifies and our branding program.

Communications community site dedicated to providing a forum for open source software used in datacom and telecom environments.

Home of all Open Source Projects at Apple Computer.

A non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.

Web site of the FSF Europe, an organization dedicated to Free Software activities in Europe. As the official sister organization of the Free Software Foundation in the United States, it will build its activities around the GNU Project although it won't be limited to it.

Amusing strip following the antics of Columbia Internet and its employees. Frequently touches on Open Source, Linux, hacker culture, and holy wars.

by C. Justin Seiferth, Maj USAF; a study for the Air Command and Staff College Air University. Military implications of Open Licenses.

Home of Mozilla, the Netscape based open source browser.

Urges initiative and good manners to promote open source.

The Open Science Project is an Organization devoted to providing open source scientific software.

Promotes open software, research, and content in cyberspace. Includes a reference archive of some open licenses used by other organizations.

Information about Free Software movement for novices.

In-depth review and analysis of the many quantitative reasons to use open source software, with statistics from a variety of recent surveys.

Focuses on connections between free software and community development and on free software in Australia.

Explains one person's experiences with open source.

A resource for building Open Source Web sites, covering Linux, BSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. OpenDeveloper.org is an independent Web site about open source development of Web sites -- by the community, for the community.

Microsoft are getting very worried indeed about competition from Open Source Software such as Linux. This leaked internal memo, courtesy of Eric Raymond, reveals all -- including the extreme lengths Microsoft is willing to go to squash its competition.

Makes political and ethical case for adopting free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International. Applies generally to development agencies and other groups with like values.

Fans of free software and music found some allies this weekend who said if lawmakers don't understand technology they shouldn't try and regulate it.

Personal page regarding free software and online freedom in general.

Contains some informative articles about Open Source software, success stories, and news

Contains the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which are regarded as compliance rules for free software by many others besides Debian package maintainers.

Final year project for the MSc in Management at the University of Bath's School of Management by James Clary & Valerio Motti

Eric S. Raymond's seminal paper analysing why open source works so well; followup papers "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "The Revenge of the Hackers"; and comments and criticisms from third parties.

A group of volunteers based in the UK which hopes to find ways of bringing the benefits of Open Source Software to the voluntary / community sector.

News and promotion of open source activities in Asia.

Article describing the philosophy and hidden agenda of anti-open source think tanks.

Provides a brief introduction to open source software, applications, programs, and case studies.

Promotes adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) in the nonprofit/NGO sector.

A United Nations Development Programme advocacy site for free and open source software, focused on the Asia-Pacific region.

Provides guidance about free and open source software, and about related standards.

South African Open Source awareness campaign promoting Open Source software within households and small businesses.

Dedicated to advocating the use of open source and free software.

A paper on why supporting proprietary commercial software, as typified by current software vendors, is inherently an illogical process.

Promote free software and related services.

Community portal providing a discussion forum, articles and blogs.

Non-profit public organization that works to promote the usage of Free and Open Source software in Lithuania.

Examining, chronicling, and battling the censorship attempts of intellectual property laws.

Non-profit organization created to promote the adoption of open source solutions within U.S. agencies and academic entities.

Discusses how laws, politicans and big companies allegedly conspire to stifle innovation and restrict knowledge to the detriment of open source software.

Linux and open source advocacy for the enterprise user.

A global effort to promote the use of free and Open Source software. Lists forthcoming events, news, forum, gallery and contributing teams.

Raising public awareness about past and present infringement of GPL licensed software. Includes profile, news and events.

An portal covering and advocating the open source movement, software and new developments. Includes forum, news, articles, downloads and related resources.

Articles, tutorials and reviews of open source software for home and commercial users. Includes recommendations on productivity software and various Linux distributions.

Promotes Open Source software use in business through independent review and opinion. Lists top products and the latest news.