Open Software Foundation

OSF Open Software Foundation a computing industry group that defines particular standards for operating and interoperating system software. 

The second level addresses transfer, that is the ability to get a message from one part of an enterprise to another in a consistent way. The ability to deal with transfer of files and data is often termed interfacing, and is addressed by a very large family of specifications, most of them currently or proposed standards. Recently, a users union, the Houston 30, was created to accelerate the introduction of connectivity and interfacing standards to the marketplace. The Open Software Foundation also supports many of these fundamental requirements. 

From these examples, and others which are going on today (Compaq Computer is forming a consortium to develop an alternative to the PS/2 bus several UNIX software vendors have formed the Open Software Foundation (OSF) to combat the AT T/Sun Unix alliance), there is a lesson to be learned. 

Obfuscation. For example, consider the UNIX wars. UNIX is an open standard (see below), and for years several different versions have been available. Vendors have been under pressure to support a single version. American Telephone and Telegraph (AT T) and SUN recently announced their intentions to build and support a single version of UNIX. With motives that have been questioned by some observers, many other computer vendors have responded by joining together as the Open Software Foundation (OSF) to produce their own standard version of UNIX. This is, of course, nonsense, and destroys the concept of standards. A software vendor would have to build for, and test extensively in, both OEs in order to deliver a quality product. 

A cadre of software developers, such as Richard Stallman, continued to advocate for an open software development community. Under Stallman s direction, the Free Software Foundation was created in 1983. Stallman was also the driving force behind The GNU Project (GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU s not Unix ). The GNU Project was one of the first initiatives to challenge the emerging trend of proprietary software. 

Recently, Diercksen and Hall (1) presented the OpenMol Program a proposal for an open, flexible and intelligent software system for performing quantum chemical computations. Central to their proposal was the observation that there is a close relationship between an abstract data type operation and a production rule in a rule-based expert system. The aim of this paper is to explore the establishment of a sound theoretical foundation for this relationship. 

The quick diffusion of PG is due to its efficiency, ease of use and installation the open source nature of the program allowed the cooperation of a set of kind users, who translated the whole software. Moreover, the Dutch foundation Kennisnet let op School used PG for publishing a screencast series about podcasting with open source and promoted the use of our software in schools for this purpose they have also developed a video podcast that shows the installation procedure of PG. ... 

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