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Best Open Source Project?

Started on June 6th, 2006

By holotone

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From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
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Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's sources. Some consider it as a philosophy, and others consider it as a pragmatic methodology. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet and its enabling of diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. Subsequently, open source software became the most prominent face of open source.

The open source model can allow for the concurrent use of different agendas and approaches in production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies.
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What is the absolute best that the open source model has to offer? The term is usually applied to software specifically, but I'd like to use it here to refer to any community developed project whose collaborative efforts are freely available to all to use and/or modify in any not-for-profit manner; This could include content, health, politics, religion, media, etc..

Tags: art, culture, foss, history, hobbies, open source, oss, products, software, tech, technology, websites

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1.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Firefox http://www.getfirefox.com/ 3 Comments You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 292 votes 5486 pts
2.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists a... [show more] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists as a wiki, a website that allows visitors to edit its content; the word Wikipedia itself is a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia and is often abbreviated to WP by its users. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing articles to be changed by anyone with access to the website. [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 264 votes 4835 pts
3.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Linux (GNU/Linux) Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source ... [show more] Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source development and free software; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely. [show less] 2 Comments You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 150 votes 2595 pts
4.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Apache Server Even if you think you've never used Apache, you have. Apache serves 70% of all websites on the internet. http://www.apache.org/ 1 Comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 137 votes 2269 pts
5.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Ubuntu Linux http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: tha... [show more] http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to. [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 124 votes 2105 pts
6.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway OpenOffice A free, open source replacement for MS office, and it mostly works well with MS documents. Download at http://www.openoffice.org/ 1 Comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 97 votes 1460 pts
7.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway PHP http://www.php.net PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. 1 Comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 95 votes 1418 pts
8.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 1 Comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 94 votes 1401 pts
9.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Python http://www.python.org/ Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software devel... [show more] http://www.python.org/ Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code. [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 69 votes 1126 pts
10.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway BitTorrent http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most effici... [show more] http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most efficient means of distributing, discovering, and consuming large, high-quality files on the Web. [show less] 7 Comments You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 80 votes 1059 pts
11.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway MySQL MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its excelle... [show more] MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its excellent read performance is ideal. It is easily "the world's most popular open source database," as its commercial proponent MySQL AB asserts. [show less] 1 Comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 77 votes 1038 pts
12.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using ... [show more] http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using the elcipse IDE for 2+ years now and love it. Very well done. [show less] 2 Comments You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 65 votes 1003 pts
13.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Gimp http://www.gimp.org/ Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 69 votes 945 pts
14.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Blender 3D Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Ava... [show more] Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 61 votes 906 pts
15.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Debian http://www.debian.org/ The universal operating system. This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many... [show more] http://www.debian.org/ The universal operating system. This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many other GNU/Linux distros are built; it is probably the most flexible distribution out there, and runs on more architectures than any other distro out there, even on HURD and BSD kernels. Debian features a social contract that guarantees it's dedication to FOSS ideals. [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 58 votes 855 pts
16.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Drupal More than just a CMS, perhaps the finest constructed middleware application server platform in all of Open Source-dom. Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 54 votes 852 pts
17.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway FreeBASIC FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible p... [show more] FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly and many others. [show less] 8 Comments You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 40 votes 786 pts
18.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved "... [show more] http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved " and the public domain " no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work " a "some rights reserved" copyright. [show less] 3 Comments You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 52 votes 784 pts
19.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway SourceForge.net http://sourceforge.net/ Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 59 votes 774 pts
20.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Thunderbird An awesome free mail client, and a great alternative to Outlook. Calendar and other extensions are available. http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 55 votes 732 pts
21.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway GCC - GNU Compiler Collection, http://gcc.gnu.org Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more, b... [show more] Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more, back-ends for all the popular platforms, and ones you've never heard of. [show less] 1 Comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 46 votes 652 pts
22.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Java Yes, Java is going open source! Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specif... [show more] Yes, Java is going open source! Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specification, and a platform-independent promise of compatibility, Java technology became a gold standard in embedded devices, mobile phones, on the desktop and within the enterprise. Now, in 2006, Sun is open sourcing its implementations of Java technology as Free/Libre software. Project Page : http://java.sun.com/ [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 52 votes 637 pts
23.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway PostgreSQL The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 45 votes 627 pts
24.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Amarok Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it out. http://amarok.kd... [show more] Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it out. http://amarok.kde.org [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 39 votes 615 pts
25.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Ruby on Rails http://www.rubyonrails.org Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustaina... [show more] http://www.rubyonrails.org Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. [show less] Add a comment You marked this answer as ''	Vote! 41 votes 604 pts
26.	Answer hidden due to your settings for mature content \| View Anyway You have marked this answer as irrelevant \| Still visible to others \| View anyway Joomla Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everyt... [show more] Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.