Monday, November 29, 2004

Most popular open source initiatives

Here are some of the successful Open Source software that have hit the main stream.
  1. PALM (Perl / Python / PHP, Apache, Linux & MySQL)
  2. FireFox has been making a big wave recently.
  3. GNU with it's recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX” is one of the earliest proponent of the freesoftware. GPL the General Public License is one of the most popular license in the open source world. Linux being the most popular of them.
  4. SourceForge.net boast to be the world's largest Open Source software development website.
  5. WikiPedia boasts to be the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
  6. RedHat is for profit publically traded company that is synonymous with Linux distribution and open source.

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