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"The VHA would require these hospitals to implement the VistA electronic medical-record system, which is open source, meaning it's free to anyone who wants to download the code. The VHA would also set the same standards it demands of its own doctors and hospitals and encourage the doctors in the Boston hospitals to practice more integrated care. Doctors would be put on the hospital's payroll, like doctors at the VHA, or they could work under contract to VistA Health." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"To the surprise of many, though, it was then revealed by the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft had been using open source in its own programs, despite unequivocal claims to the contrary.8 Thus, while Microsoft was leading the charge for years against open source, it was using such software on one of its more frequently accessed sites.9 Why so much fuss about open source? Here's why: software is the foundation of the molecular economy, and open source is the fly in the ointment of those who would seek to monopolize that economy. It is profoundly fundamental to our future." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Torvalds permitted his operating system to be distributed free; it subsequently gained ground as alternative to Windows on enterprise and Web servers. The open source Software Movement Concurrent with the rise of Linux, other application developers were touting the acceptance of open source software—applications whose underlying code lies in the public domain, and could be distributed free of charge." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"They didn't have to start from scratch: open-source office browser [see open source, p. 127], e-mail, and office software had already been written in English—it just needed to be "localized" into Khmer. In the course of the project, Sola met Dwayne Bailey, who heads the Translate.org.za project, which translates open-source software and is translating OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird —three of the most popular open-source programs —into each of South Africa's eleven official languages." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In very practical terms, that's what open source is doing in the Global South. Brazil isn't engaged in a science project: it's declaring a revolution. A5 Leapfrogging I nFra structure ¦Mi Cities are largely the products of their infrastructure. But this bit of common sense is stood on its head in emerging megacities [see Lagos, p. 279], where cities often spring up before there is any infrastructure. How will megacities meet their citizens' needs for the basics of life, like clean water and electricity? Leapfrogging [see Leapfrogging, p." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The poster child of leapfrogging is the mobile phone, but cheap computers and open-source software [see open source, p. 127] are promising to take the leapfrogging revolution digital. In theory, with breakthroughs coming quickly in all sorts of technologies, the Global South should soon be able to leapfrog in any area of development. To better understand leapfrogging, we need to ask: "What, exactly, did industrialization buy us, here in the Global North?" To answer that question, all we need to do is to look at our own lives." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "It is already a major part of the mainstream information technology economy, and it increasingly dominates aspects of that economy that will probably be the leading edge over the next decade." open source, he argues, is more than software —it's a way of organizing production so that it can be used for works for public good, and that is definitely worldchanging. The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond (O'Reilly Media, 2001) Available as a free download at http://catb." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The VHA would require these hospitals to implement the VistA electronic medical-record system, which is open source, meaning it's free to anyone who wants to download the code. The VHA would also set the same standards it demands of its own doctors and hospitals and encourage the doctors in the Boston hospitals to practice more integrated care. Doctors would be put on the hospital's payroll, like doctors at the VHA, or they could work under contract to VistA Health." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Why so much fuss about open source? Here's why: software is the foundation of the molecular economy, and open source is the fly in the ointment of those who would seek to monopolize that economy. It is profoundly fundamental to our future. In recognition of this, organizations such as the Foresight Institute have started open-source projects10 to flesh out the issue." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Linux Linux, first introduced in 1991, is an open source variant of the established UNIX operating system, which was developed by Ken Thompson (b. 1943) and Dennis Ritchie in 1975. The Linux operating system was developed by (and named for) Linus Torvalds (b. 1970), a second-year student of computer science at the University of Helsinki. Torvalds permitted his operating system to be distributed free; it subsequently gained ground as alternative to Windows on enterprise and Web servers." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Open Source software for which the underlying programming code is available (free) for users to make changes to it and build new versions incorporating those changes. operating system a sequence of programming codes that instructs a computer about its various parts and peripherals and how to operate them. Operating systems, such as Windows or Linux, deal only with the workings of the hardware and are separate from software programs, parallel a type of external port used to connect printers and other similar devices." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "There are many different flavors of Linux, many of which are freely distributed under open source guidelines. liquid crystal display (LCD) a flat-screen display where images are created by light transmitted through a layer of liquid crystals. local area network (LAN) a system that enables users to connect PCs to one another or to minicomputers or mainframes. macro a series of instmctions in a simple coding language, used to automate procedures in a computer application, document, or template." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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