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<m key="abiword.generator">AbiWord</m>
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<m key="abiword.date_last_changed">Thu Sep 18 21:24:51 2003</m>
<m key="dc.title">AbiWord Help: About Open Source</m>
<m key="dc.creator">Copyright (C) 2002 Dom Lachowicz</m>
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<p style="Heading 1"><c props="lang:en-US">About Open Source</c></p>
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<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US">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.</c></p>
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<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US">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.</c></p>
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<p style="Normal"><c props="lang:en-US">For more information, visit the </c><a xlink:href="http://www.opensource.org"><c props="lang:en-US">OpenSource.Org</c></a><c props="lang:en-US"> website. </c></p>
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