The adjective "open-source" not only refers to a specific set of freedoms applying to a product, but also generally presupposes that the product is the object or the result of a "process that relies on the contributions of geographically dispersed developers via the Internet." In practice however, in both fields of open-source hardware and open-source software, products may either be the ...

Linden Research, Inc., doing business as Linden Lab, is an American technology company that is best known as the creator of Second Life. The company's head office is in San Francisco, with additional offices in Boston, Seattle, Virginia and Davis, California.Its offices in Mountain View, Brighton, Singapore and Amsterdam were closed in 2010. In addition, the company employs …