Free and Open Source Software

There are a large number of Free and Open Source products. While many of them are commonly known, there are others people use without knowing they are Free and Open Source products. In the side menu you will find a number of Open Source projects that I work on, or use in my daily work. Below you can find some information on Open Source projects.

http://www.fsf.org/	http://www.opensource.org/
The Free Software Foundation is the main promoter of Free Software , and their GPL license is used by many software project.	The Open Source Initiative (OSI) non-profit corporation promotes Open Source software and it collects and certifies software licenses that may use the "Open Source" logo.
http://www.linux.org/	http://www.freebsd.org/
By now most people have heard about Linux, the kernel used by the GNU/Linux operating system. It is one of the most highly discussed Free Software projects there is.	Another successful free operating system is FreeBSD, due to its less restrictive licensing. It is used, for example, by Apple as a base for their Mac OS/X.
http://gcc.gnu.org/	http://www.apache.org/
The GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC for short ) is probably the most important Free Software project there is. Without GCC it is virtually impossible to build the other projects like, for example, the Linux kernel.	Apache is an example of one of the projects that most people do not know by name, but come in contact with everyday. The Apache web server is the most used webserver world wide with an over 50% market share, so it is likely that every second web page you view is served by Open Source software.