elephants dream -the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open sourcesoftware

[marcel]

downloadable via bittorrent. haven't seen it yet, downloading right now.

http://orange.blender.org/

[Orang Utan]

What's 'open source software' when it's at home?

[Davenport]

Just what it says Orang.

The source is open. The source being the code. It's open to other people using it.

[Orang Utan]

Clear as mud, cheers.
All I know now is how little I know about computer machines

[Davenport]

its like if you mum was open source.. i could fuk her and so could anyone else?

get it?

[kams]

would she end up being covered by creative commons?

[Orang Utan]

Not really - never mind - should have known not to ask a forum of spods!

[marcel]

if orangutans mum were opensource everyone could use parts of her to make a different mum out of it..

[joe pinapples]

Originally Posted by Orang Utan

Not really - never mind - should have known not to ask a forum of spods!

try wikipedia then

[Orang Utan]

I shall - thought I'd get a nice and concise explanation here first though.

[Davenport]

Originally Posted by marcel

if orangutans mum were opensource everyone could use parts of her to make a different mum out of it..

yeah everyone could make a different orang utan mum to fuck.
you could have orang Tangs mum with pink mascara and the leather tank top she lends to her son. Or you could have orang tangs mum painted with UV paint on her naughty bits.

[AVX23]

This rocks, the software they used is pretty fuggin neat likes, One of my friends is using it at the mo, fuggin A1.

[marcel]

Originally Posted by Dr Phil Thompson

yeah everyone could make a different orang utan mum to fuck.
you could have orang Tangs mum with pink mascara and the leather tank top she lends to her son. Or you could have orang tangs mum painted with UV paint on her naughty bits.

they surely would be better than, say, bill gates mum, who happens to be closedsource.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

who gives a fuck what they used to make it.

is it any good?

[marcel]

don't know yet..

[Orang Utan]

I've just looked open source on Wiki and am still none the wiser - I don't think I'll ever understand these strange machines

[marcel]

it's really pretty easy, orang utan. opensource software is not only freely available for use, but also the source/code/algorithms are for everyone to see. so you can see how the software is written, how it's functioning. that code is also free to everyone for use. so you could write a programm based on algorhitms of an opensourceprogram (provided you'd use the same licence for publishing)

if cocacola would give their drinks away for free and would make their recepts public and allow everyone to make their own cola out of that recept, they'd be opensource (somehow)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Originally Posted by Orang Utan

I've just looked open source on Wiki and am still none the wiser - I don't think I'll ever understand these strange machines

It's quite simple really. The important fact is that open source software is essentially free and you can change it to suit your needs if you have the technical skills.

[penciLneck]

Richard Stallman is the daddy of open source. He 'hacked' the planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

[spoon]

open source software is communist software. be warned.

[invisibleplanet]

Originally Posted by Orang Utan

I've just looked open source on Wiki and am still none the wiser - I don't think I'll ever understand these strange machines

Type the following into your searchbar:

define: open source

[Tec]

If my gran released her sherry trifle recipe upon the world so that other folk could try and replicate or make a better version (doubtful).
That would be theorectically an open source trife.

[Yer_Maw]

free to modify, add to, or in some cases sell. the point is that if you use open source, then what you add or modify must be open source as well.

for example. linksys made a router with open source software. this got found out and they had to publish the details of the router, and now people have made mad modifications for it.

[Orang Utan]

Originally Posted by Tec

If my gran released her sherry trifle recipe upon the world so that other folk could try and replicate or make a better version (doubtful).
That would be theorectically an open source trife.

That's probablty the best explanation so far - cheers Tec
Tis like Coca Cola giving away their recipes for everyone to make their own coke?

[Yer_Maw]

kindof, its like coca cola giving the recipe away, but if you modify it and make it better, you have to also give the recipe away.

subtle difference in this example is that coca cola would probably be a collective of individuals giving their time away for free, rather than a company

[soulcheck]

Originally Posted by Yer_Maw

free to modify, add to, or in some cases sell. the point is that if you use open source, then what you add or modify must be open source as well.

for example. linksys made a router with open source software. this got found out and they had to publish the details of the router, and now people have made mad modifications for it.

That's only half true, when you use GPL software you have to make your product available on GPL as well. There are other types of licenses, for example Apache, that don't require you to do so, and the software is still open source.