Difference between revisions of "List of free software innovations"

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Here is a list of software-related innovations done in an environment of free software whether by companies, communities or non-profits.

Spiro: "a toolkit for curve design, especially font design". It is integrated into FontForge and Inkscape.

gstreamer: implements a new, very flexible way to plug together multimedia components(decoder,encoder etc..)

BitTorrent: one of the most common protocols for transferring large files using peer-to-peer technology.
maranello: designed packet recovery system implemented on a free firmware for broadcom cards
codec2 : a lossy, low bitrate codec for audio conversations
B.A.T.M.A.N.: a routing protocol for mesh networks

Akonadi: the extensible cross-desktop storage service for personal information mangers data.
Bzip2: bzip2 is a lossless compression algorithm
Package manager: a new way of installing applications that changed everything

Metafont: the only way to make entire new font families by just changing less than 62 parameters.^[1]

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 == Operating system ==
 * [http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/ Akonadi]: the extensible cross-desktop storage service for personal information mangers data.
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2 Bzip2]: bzip2 is a losless compression algorithm
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2 Bzip2]: bzip2 is a lossless compression algorithm
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager Package manager]: a new way of installing applications that changed everything