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<!-- Open Source Chapter. Do not release until more work has been done to
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it. The goal of this chapter will be to provide an introduction to
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the concepts of the "Open Source Community" and encourage others to
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participate in their own ways.
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<chapter id="open-source">
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<title>Open Source Software</title>
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<blockquote><para><quote>If you have an apple and I have an apple and we
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exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these
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ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.</quote> G. Bernard Shaw</para>
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</blockquote>
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<blockquote><para><quote>The basic idea behind open source is very simple:
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When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a
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piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it,
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people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the
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slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.</quote>
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Taken from the Open Source Initiative website <ulink url="www.opensource.com">
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http://www.opensource.com/</ulink></para></blockquote>
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<para> What does it mean to be Open Source? Open Source means many things,
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but primarily it means the sharing of ideas. Creating something and
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letting the world learn from it, use it, and change it. Almost everything
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created for Linux, including applications, documentation, and the Linux
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Operating System itself are released as Open Source. Please remember to
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share what you know and learn with others, so that we all can benefit.</para>
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</chapter>
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