Definitivamente tenia que partir con este post este nuevo blog, jejejeje. Ya que esta nueva cara esta completamente basada en esta mirada. Asà que para que sepan un poco más. Y entiendan de que se trata cuando hablo de WordPress, que el diseño lo hizo alguien gratis, y que todos los detalles que este blog esta construido por mas de 100 personas y de los cuales podemos ocupar gracias a una filosofÃa, la del Open Source.
Una mirada que hoy se ha pasado a la Agricultura, la Salud, la TecnologÃa, el gobierno, los medios e incluso el Yoga.
Según Wikipedia Código abierto (del inglés open source) es el término por el que se conoce al software distribuido y desarrollado en forma libre. Este término empezó a utilizarse en 1998 por algunos usuarios de la comunidad del software libre, tratando de usarlo como reemplazo al ambiguo nombre original en inglés del software libre (free software).
Lo filosofÃa del “Open Source” centra su atención en la premisa que al compartir el codigo, el programa resultante tiende a ser de calidad superior al software propietario, es una visión meramente técnica. Por otro lado, el Software Libre funciona bajo el ideal que el software propietario, al no poder compartirse es antiético, dado que prohibir compartir entre seres humanos va en contra las leyes naturales.
Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s sources. It is regarded by some as a philosophy and by others 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.[1] 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
Software is not the only field affected by open source; many fields of study and social and political views have been affected by the growth of the concept of open source. Advocates in one field will often support the expansion of open source in other fields, including Linus Torvalds who is quoted as saying, “the future is open source everything.”
The open source movement has been the inspiration for increased transparency and liberty in other fields, including the release of biotechnology research by CAMBIA and the encyclopedia named Wikipedia, as well as later projects. The open-source concept has also been applied to media other than computer programs, e.g., by Creative Commons. It also constitutes an example of user innovation (see for example the book Democratizing Innovation). Often, open source is an expression where it simply means that a system is available to all who wish to work on it.
Agriculture
- Beverages
- OpenCola is another idea inspired by the open source movement. Soft drink giants like Coke and Pepsi hold their formulas as closely guarded secrets. Now volunteers have posted the recipe for a similar cola drink on the Internet. The taste is said to be comparable to that of the standard beverages.
- Beer. A beer recipe called Vores Ã?l. Following its release, an article in Wired magazine commented that “as open source spreads beyond software to online encyclopedias like Wikipedia and biological research, it was only a matter of time before somebody created an open-source beer”. [1]
Health
- Medicine
There have also been several proposals for open-source pharmaceutical development, such as the article Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source an Answer?, which led to the establishment of the Tropical Disease Initiative. There are also a number of not-for-profit “virtual pharmas” such as the Institute for One World Health and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative.
Technology
- Computer software
- Open source software â?? software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Open source code evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers as well as very large companies. Some examples of open source initiatives are Linux, Eclipse, Apache, Tomcat web server, Mozilla, and various projects hosted on SourceForge.
- Computer hardware
- Open source hardware â?? hardware whose initial specification, usually in a software format, are published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the hardware and source code without paying royalties or fees. Open source hardware evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual hardware/software developers, hobbyists, as well as very large companies. An example of Open Source Hardware initiatives are: Sun Microsystem’s OpenSPARC T1 Multicore processor. Sun states in their Press release: “The source code will be released under an Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved open source license.”
- Open design â?? which involves applying open source methodologies to the design of artifacts and systems in the physical world. Very nascent but has huge potential.
Society and culture
Open source as applied to culture defines a culture in which fixations are made generally available. Participants in such an open source culture are able to modify those products, if needed, and redistribute them back into the community or other organizations.
Two kinds of Open Source in Culture are: Open Source Culture and Open Source Philosophy
Government
Open source government primarily refers to use of open source software and technologies in traditional government organizations and government operations such as voting.
Open source politics is a term used to describe a political process that uses Internet technologies such as blogs and email to provide for a rapid feedback mechanism between political organizations and their supporters. There is also an alternative conception of the term which relates to the development of public policy under a set of rules and processes similar to the Open Source Software movement.
Open source governance is similar to open source politics, but it applies more to the democratic process and promotes the freedom of information.
Media
Open source journalism referred to the standard journalistic techniques of news gathering and fact checking, and reflected a similar term that was in use from 1992 in military intelligence circles, open source intelligence. It is now commonly used to describe forms of innovative publishing of online journalism, rather than the sourcing of news stories by a professional journalist.
The OpenDocument format is an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, charts, and presentations. Organizations and individuals that store their data in an open format such as OpenDocument avoid being locked in to a single software vendor, leaving them free to switch software if their current vendor goes out of business, raises their prices, changes their software, or changes their licensing terms to something less favorable.
The Creative Commons for entertainment and literature.
Yoga
Open Source Yoga Unity (OSYU), a nonprofit California corporation, was formed to provide a common voice, and the pooling of resources, to resist the enforcement of the copyright protection of any Yoga style thereby ensuring its continued natural unfettered practice for all to enjoy and develop.