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Open source resources are accessible to the public–anyone can use, modify, inspect, or enhance the source code. 

Open Source

Organizations and Web Resources

Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/ 
Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/ 
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/ 
Open Source Foundation: http://www.opensource.org/ 
GrokLaw: http://www.groklaw.net

Graphics

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) : http://www.gimp.org 
Inkscape : http://www.inkscape.org 
Scribus : http://www.scribus.net 
MyPaint: http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ 
Pencil: http://www.pencil-animation.org/

Video

OpenShot: https://www.openshot.org
Kdenlive : http://www.kdenlive.org 
VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 
FreeMix: http://freemix.forja.rediris.es/ 
ffmpeg: http://www.ffmpeg.org/ 
PiTiVi:    http://www.pitivi.org/ 
Cinelerra: http://cinelerra.org/ 
Kino: http://www.kinodv.org/

Video CMS’s
7 Best Open Source Video CMS’s

Audio

Audacity : http://audacity.sourceforge.net 
Ardour : http://ardour.org 
Pure Data : http://puredata.info/ 
Mixxx: http://www.mixxx.org/ 
SuperCollider: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/ 
Qtractor: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html 
LMMS: http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

Programming

Processing : http://www.processing.org 
Arduino: http://www.arduino.cc 
Cinder: http://libcinder.org/ 
OpenFrameworks: http://www.openframeworks.cc 
Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org

3D

Blender : http://www.blender.org 
Wings3D: http://www.wings3d.com/ 
K3D: http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Main_Page 
BRLCad: http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/ 
FreeCad: http://www.ar-cad.com/freecad/index.html 
Art of Illusion: http://www.artofillusion.org/

Game Engines

Panda3D: http://www.panda3d.org 
PyGame: http://www.pygame.org 
Alice: http://www.alice.org 
Cocos2D: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/, http://www.cocos2d.org 
CrystalSpace: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/ 
OGRE: http://www.ogre3d.org/ 
Irrlicht: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ 
Delta3D: http://www.delta3d.org/

Other

LibreOffice : http://www.libreoffice.org/ 
Firefox : http://www.mozilla.com 
Gnome Desktop: http://www.gnome.org/ 
KDE Desktop: http://kde.org/ 
Linux Kernel: http://www.kernel.org/

Linux Distributions

Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com 
Linux Mint: http://www.linuxmint.com 
Fedora: http://www.fedoraproject.org 
Debian: http://www.debian.org 
OpenSuse: http://www.opensuse.org 
ArtistX: http://www.artistx.org 
PureDyne: http://www.puredyne.org 
DistroWatch: http://distrowatch.com/