FOSS: Free and Open Source Software

"Another major off-shoot of FOSS is the open access movement in academia....In the United States, a public face of open access is the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, which is particularly concerned about access to research that is publicly funded. Yet, if anything, the movement is even more popular in developing nations, where academic institutions cannot afford the journal subscriptions needed to foster first rate academic programs. Although such movements have different goals, what they share with each other and with FOSS is a belief in free access to information and a de-centralized structure that challenges the existing order or way of doing things...."