Yes, We're Open! [COMGT]

Yes, We're Open!
culture, hardware, sources, software, standards, ... For business!

On Open Source:
	Open Source Culture	Fully adhere to culture of openess, decentralization, sharing information
	Open Source Hardware	Use of open source hardware
	Open Source Software (OSS)	Using OSS development tools like GNU Emacs and compilers, etc, Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for execution on LAMP - Linux, Apache (web server), MySQL (database), Perl/PHP/Python programming languages. Uses office applications such as GIMP graphics editing software, Open Office office suite, and lots more.
	More on Open Source...:	E.g. Open source government , Open source journalism ,
On Open ...
	Open Access (OA)	Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org)
	Open Education	Connexions (cnx.org) - "Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities", by Rice University. OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu) - "Free Online Course Materials", by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.
	Open Identity, OpenID	We're reviewing use of OpenID - openid.net. OpenID is a decentralized, free and open standard that lets users control the amount of personal information they provide.
	Open Standards	Standards should always be completely open and freely accessible - at no cost! Note that there are different interpretations in the case of open and standards and some institutions may charge money for what they call open standards.

( refer to related article in wikipedia. executes a search at Google)


GNU Operating System, gnu.org	Linux Kernel & OS, linux.org	FreeBSD Operating System, FreeBSD.org

Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 1 ZDNet blog 2008-05-23 , part 2 ZDNet blog 2008-06-13

Application	What	Linux	Mac	MSWin	Comments
OpenOffice Writer Calc Impress	Office-suite Word processor Spreadsheet Presentation	Y	Y	Y	Mac users: check out NeoOffice (neooffice.org) for an actually very good alternative to MS Office. Competent, quite fast, and good user interface.
Evolution	Email, Calendar,...	Y	?	?	Personal Information Management, ~MS Entourage, MS Outlook
GIMP	Image editing	Y	?	Y	~Adobe Photoshop
Pidgin	IM client	Y	?	?	'supports a whole host of protocols'
Rhythmbox	music management	Y	?	?	cmp Windows Media Player
Brasero	CD/DVD burning	Y	?	?	burn audio CDs, data CDs and DVDs, burn images to CD and DVD and do one-to-one copies of CDs and DVDs