Free and open-source software/External links

• Wikipedia article on the subject of free software and open source

Organisations

• Free software foundation (FSF) website
• Open Source Initiative (OSI) website

Documents and articles

• FSF Free software definition
• OSI Open source definition
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar - an interesting essay on why the 'bazaar' model of open-source software development works well.

Software links

• Wikipedia list of open source software packages
• http://www.linux.org Free and open-source operating system
• http://www.OpenOffice.org Free and open-source office productivity software - word processor, spreadsheer, presentation software, database etc.
• http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox Free and open-source web browser
• http://www.gimp.org Free and open source 2D bitmap-graphics editor
• http://www.blender.org Free and open-source 3D graphics modeller, animator and renderer

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• The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called MediaWiki; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called Debian which in turn is running the Apache http server program (which runs 60%, or so, of websites worldwide), and PHP and the MySQL database.