A research program at Harvard Law School founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. - Read more

Dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source trademark for the good of the community. Includes a definition of 'Open Source', and a list of approved licenses. - Read more

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

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

Dedicated to establishing a free market in information technology, by the removal of barriers to competition and working towards sane patent systems and open standards. - Read more

Explains the difference between "Free Software" described as a social movement focusing on freedom and "Open Source" described as a development methodology. By Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation. - Read more

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

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

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. - Read more

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