<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <!-- Copyright 2002 Dom Lachowicz Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License" //--> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>About Open Source</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div class="banner"> <a href="index.html" class="bars">Home</a> > About OSS </div> <div class="main"> <h1>About Open Source</h1> <p><br /> </p> <p>Open Source software, such as AbiWord, is freely licensed for widespread, unrestricted usage and distribution, including source code. While the concept has been in use for well over a decade, the recent ubiquity of Internet access has provided a means for rapid, widespread distribution of free software. Unhindered by legal restrictions, Open Source software programs can reach a massive base of users much faster than their more traditional, proprietary counterparts.</p> <p><br /> </p> <p>The Open Source community has quietly produced some of the most widely-used software in the world, including Apache, the most popular Web server on the Internet, and Linux, a popular full-featured Open Source operating system.</p> <p><br /> </p> <p>For more information, visit the <a href="http://www.opensource.org">OpenSource.Org</a> website. </p> </div> <div class="index"> <a href="index.html" class="bars">Top Page</a> <a href="tutorial/index.html" class="bars">Tutorial</a> <a href="howto/index.html" class="bars">How To</a> <a href="info/index.html" class="bars">Information</a> <a href="interface/index.html" class="bars">Interface</a> <a href="problems/index.html" class="bars">Problems</a> <a href="credits.html" class="bars">Credits</a> <a href="azindex.html" class="bars">Index</a> <a href="search.html" class="bars">Search</a> <a href="fdl.html" class="bars">GNU FDL</a> </div> </body> </html>