Open-source

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"Open-source" in a Sentence (17 examples)

If machines are to be used to record and count votes, these must use open-source programming code and produce a hard-copy printout which each voter can verify as accurate when casting a ballot, and which will be used in the event of a later manual recount.

We’re crowdsourcing an open-source dataset of voices.

I see you drank the open-source Kool-Aid.

Tom and I used to talk about everything, but now he only wants to talk about Linux and free and open-source software.

"Any individual Wi-Fi device doesn't reach very far, but if you can chain many of them together, then you can provide access over a wider area," said Joshua King, lead developer at Commotion Wireless, an open-source software initiative for mesh networks.

Thomas uses open-source software.

Mastodon is a federated free and open-source social network.

Even higher-tech products, like computers, can be modified to suit local conditions. The One Laptop Per Child initiative was created by the U.S. non-profit group of the same name. The green and white laptops are lightweight, durable, and can be hand-cranked or solar-powered. They use open-source software, which allows children and their teachers to adapt the software to their needs.

Smaller, open-source AI models are now supposed to outperform their larger counterparts if they are taught to "reason"—generate more tokens that consider all possible options in a logical question—before producing a final answer.

It runs an online RSS news reader service accessible both online and via a free open-source mobile app for offline reading.

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Linux is an open-source operating system.

ASP.NET MVC has been under an open-source license since the initial release, but it was just open-source code instead of a full open-source project.

OpenSNP constituted a rare example of how open-source projects can successfully operate on a low budget, having repeatedly rejected offers from corporations to sell control of the data.

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The ramifications of disinformation spill on to the streets with tangible, often devastating real-world consequences. These processes were already under way in 2014, when I founded the open-source investigative group Bellingcat.

The big Unix company Sun Microsystems bought the code for StarOffice in 1999, and some time afterward they open-sourced as much of it as they could.

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