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www.opensource.org

Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program.

www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

Philosophy of the GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF): This directory describes the philosophy of the Free Software Movement, which is the motivation for their development of the free software operating system GNU.

newsforge.com/

NewsForge is the online newspaper of record for the Open Source and Linux communities. The goal is to provide readers with unique original news reporting and commentary and to deliver every relevant news article, commentary piece, product review and press release published about the Open Source community and its projects, including GNU/Linux, BSD, Free Software, and related topics.

www.osdn.com/

OSDN provides news, tools and education for the IT and developer community.

slashdot.org/

Slashdot has the simple mission to provide 'News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters'.Slashdot is owned by OSDN, but it is still run by many of the same people as it was 'Back in the Day'. It serves millions of pages to hundreds of thousands of readers. But the goal is still the same.

www.linux.org.uk

News and links site with UK focus.

www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/

Open Source Now is designed to help the open source community build advocacy in the same way it builds software - by empowering individuals.

www.eurolinux.org/

The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a European software culture based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source software such as Linux. The EuroLinux Alliance co-organised in 1999, together with the French Embassy in Japan, the first Europe-Japan conference on Linux and Free Software. The EuroLinux Alliance is at the initiative of the www.freepatents.org web site to promote and protect innovation and competition in the European IT industry.

www.linuxcentral.com/

Resources site.

www.gnu.org/

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.

www.affs.org.uk/

The Association for Free Software (AFFS) is a membership organization which promotes and defends Free Software in the UK.

www.fsfeurope.org/

The Free Software Foundation Europe was launched March 10th 2001 and works towards all European aspects of Free Software and especially the GNU Project. It is actively supporting development of Free Software and furthering GNU-based systems such as GNU/Linux. Also it provides a competence center for politicians, lawyers and journalists in order to secure the legal, political and social future of Free Software.

Site development by: Peter Murray

Last updated 21 January, 2003