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ref-manual, dev-manual: Moved "Open Source Philosophy" to ref-manual.

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Fixes [YOCTO #11630]

The "Open Source Philosophy" section that was in the dev-manual is
really conceptual reference information and has no place in the
dev-manual, which is being re-written to be a "how-to" manual. I
moved the section into the new "ref-development-environment.xml"
chapter.

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(From yocto-docs rev: 0a3e65bf7a23eec6e36a3cda3c2011b70aef325b)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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<chapter id='ref-development-environment'>
<title>The Yocto Project Development Environment</title>
<para>
This chapter takes a look at the Yocto Project development
environment and also provides a detailed look at what goes on during
development in that environment.
The chapter provides Yocto Project Development environment concepts that
help you understand how work is accomplished in an open source environment,
which is very different as compared to work accomplished in a closed,
proprietary environment.
This chapter specifically addresses open source philosophy, using the
Yocto Project in a team environment, source repositories, Yocto Project
terms, licensing, the open source distributed version control system Git,
workflows, bug tracking, and how to submit changes.
</para>
<section id='open-source-philosophy'>
<title>Open Source Philosophy</title>
<para>
This chapter takes a look at the Yocto Project development
environment and also provides a detailed look at what goes on during
development in that environment.
Open source philosophy is characterized by software development
directed by peer production and collaboration through an active
community of developers.
Contrast this to the more standard centralized development models
used by commercial software companies where a finite set of developers
produces a product for sale using a defined set of procedures that
ultimately result in an end product whose architecture and source
material are closed to the public.
</para>
<para>
Open source projects conceptually have differing concurrent agendas,
approaches, and production.
These facets of the development process can come from anyone in the
public (community) that has a stake in the software project.
The open source environment contains new copyright, licensing, domain,
and consumer issues that differ from the more traditional development
environment.
In an open source environment, the end product, source material,
and documentation are all available to the public at no cost.
</para>
<para>
A benchmark example of an open source project is the Linux kernel,
which was initially conceived and created by Finnish computer science
student Linus Torvalds in 1991.
Conversely, a good example of a non-open source project is the
<trademark class='registered'>Windows</trademark> family of operating
systems developed by
<trademark class='registered'>Microsoft</trademark> Corporation.
</para>
<para>
Wikipedia has a good historical description of the Open Source
Philosophy
<ulink url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source'>here</ulink>.
You can also find helpful information on how to participate in the
Linux Community
<ulink url='http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/book/how-participate-linux-community'>here</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
<section id="development-concepts">
<title>Development Concepts</title>