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h1. Design Principles (Work in progress) * All Arvados core components are "free software":http://opensource.org/osd. * Any application can run on Arvados, including non-free tools that are only available as binaries. Use Even when source code is available, use unmodified vendor distributions with wrapper scripts around vendor-provided source and binary distributions, scripts, rather than maintaining building derivative works. * Use web technologies to tie components together, so programs can access Arvados regardless of programming language or framework. * Use the best tool, programming language, or framework for each component, instead of standardizing on a single platform for the sake of conformity. * Where possible, use established, widely understood components such as SSH, Git, Rails, ssh, git, and WebSockets slurm rather than hand rolling custom components. * Use Debian GNU/Linux as the primary supported deployment platform to ensure good performance, maximize performance and ease of development, and variety of deployment options. development. * Use technologies such as virtualization and Linux containers to increase portability and flexibility of deployment.