This free, open-source program offers a spyware- and nuisance-free installation.

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The prototype uses an open-source speech-recognition program called Pocket Sphinx, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, but Dr Kristensson reckons it would be easy to apply the same approach to commercially available programs like Nuance's Dragon.

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Second, since MySQL is open-source, anyone can use the program's underlying recipe.

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If the borrowed open-source code is integral to a larger program, that program becomes a "derivative work, " subject to various claims--e.g.

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If Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems goes through, it will have an even bigger open-source portfolio including MySQL, a popular program for databases.

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There was an all day program on their plans to develop open source programming tools and general standards to make use of the high speed, low latency and other special characteristics of current and future generations of non-volatile solid state storage.

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Levin's software scans a given program, looking for strings of code that might be open source, then identifies the licenses that apply.

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Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices and even modify its source code to improve its operating system.

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