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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: KDE, Open Source Initiative, Apache Software Foundation, Gleducar, OpenForum Europe, Metasploit Project, Hamakor, Rapid7, Electronic Information for Libraries, Free Knowledge Institute, Software Freedom Law Center, Community source, New Zealand Open Source Society, Ohloh, Linux Professional Institute, ABLEconf, Open Source Geospatial Foundation, Morfeo Open-Source Software Community, CE Linux Forum, National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software, OpenGALEN, Ma3bar, Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Open Solutions Alliance, Ubuntu Foundation, Free Standards Group, Open Source Development Labs, The Summit Open Source Development Group, CodePlex, Fundacion Via Libre, OATS, +biblios.net, International Open Source Network, Initiative for Software Choice, Software in the Public Interest, OSHCA, OSADL, Benetech, Irish Free Software Organisation, Software Freedom Conservancy, Open Source Software Institute, Singapore GNU Group, Open Source University Meetup, TuxFamily, Open conference, SIPfoundry, IfrOSS, Free Software Initiative of Japan, Associacao Nacional para o Software Livre, DOSS, Heroine Virtual, ObjectWeb, Open Source Industry Australia, BK02, NonProfit Open Source Initiative, Open Source for America, MyOSS, Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment, Linux International, Twibright Labs, Indonesia, Go Open Source, April. Excerpt: KDE ( ) is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems. It is best known for its Plasma Desktop, a desktop environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as Kubuntu, Pardus and openSUSE. The goal of the community is to provide basic desktop funct...