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Free software and open source databases [PDF]

open access: yesInformatică economică, 2006
The emergence of free/open source software -FS/OSS- enterprises seeks to push software development out of the academic stream into the commercial mainstream, and as a result, end-user applications such as open source database management systems ...
Napoleon Alexandru SIRITEANU
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Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care: A Review [PDF]

open access: yesHealthcare Informatics Research, 2014
ObjectivesTo assess the current state of the art and the contribution of Free/Libre Open Source Software in health care (FLOSS-HC).MethodsThe review is based on a narrative review of the scientific literature as well as sources in the context of FLOSS-HC
Thomas Karopka   +2 more
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Specvis: Free and open-source software for visual field examination. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Visual field impairment affects more than 100 million people globally. However, due to the lack of the access to appropriate ophthalmic healthcare in undeveloped regions as a result of associated costs and expertise this number may be an underestimate ...
Piotr Dzwiniel   +3 more
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Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical.
Tadeusz Chełkowski   +2 more
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Deployment of Open Standards in the Public Administration [PDF]

open access: yesInformatică economică, 2008
Open Source Software is receiving an increasing attention in the public administration. The aim of the paper is to discuss the deployment of open source software for office automation and to present a synthesis of the up to date status. It is intended to
Dorin IRIMESCU
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Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

open access: yesSCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2006
Andres Guadamuz
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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers

open access: yesTechnologies, 2020
Internet-related electricity consumption is rising rapidly as global Internet users spend more than 6.5 h per day online. Open source ad blockers have the potential to reduce the time and thus electricity spent using computers by eliminating ads during ...
Joshua M. Pearce
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Economic savings for scientific free and open source technology: A review

open access: yesHardwareX, 2020
Both the free and open source software (FOSS) as well as the distributed digital manufacturing of free and open source hardware (FOSH) has shown particular promise among scientists for developing custom scientific tools.
Joshua M. Pearce
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HARVESTING, INTEGRATING AND DISTRIBUTING LARGE OPEN GEOSPATIAL DATASETS USING FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016
Federal, State and Local government agencies in the USA are investing heavily on the dissemination of Open Data sets produced by each of them. The main driver behind this thrust is to increase agencies’ transparency and accountability, as well as to ...
R. Oliveira, R. Moreno
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Free and open source software in computing education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) exemplifies the merit and successes of open content, understood broadly as creative work that explicitly allows sharing and further changes by anyone, whether an individual or organization.
Jacobs, Stephen   +2 more
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