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Last night, on June 23, Avner Ronen, the founder and chief executive of Boxee-the open-source software platform that reinvents the living room by bringing all kinds of Web content onto your TV screen-announced that

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  1. adjective Of or relating to source code that is available to the public: an open-source operating system.

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  • Nokia and Intel both support several flavors of Linux, and so far, the open-source OS had a very limited success in that space. —  Ubergizmo
  • For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework. —  Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
  • The dangers of taking credit for open-source software —  Download Squad
  • This is as it should be, for the most part, assuming the developers follow the licensing for whatever open-source software (OSS) they use. —  Download Squad
  • Although there is a lot of open-source software that is licensed to be free to use, that fact amplifies the focus on correctly attributing credit for the work that went into the software. —  Download Squad
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