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| This is a list of services that might be considered "open" under various proposed definitions of "open" services, useful to test various arguments about what such a definition should or shouldn't contain.
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| * Wikipedia: data and software are freely available. How are APIs licensed?
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| * geonames.org
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| * hostip.info
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| * gmail: server source is proprietary, but all (email) data is available via standardized/open protocols, and users can make the service transparent (from an identity perspective) by using other email addresses.
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| * Amazon EC2: server images are ~ standard xen images. If you can move your data and computation transparently between S3 and completely Free xen-based servers, is it open/free/autonomous service?
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| * GNU Savannah:
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| * Second Life: client is Free; service is not.
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| * audioscrobbler/last.fm:
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| * altlaw.org:
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| * chicagocrime.org (defunct): what happens when you mash up Free data with non-free services like google maps?
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| * [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap]
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