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BASIC UNDERSTANDING ON FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE

 a) Describe Open-Source Software with example  Ans-   Open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance . Open source licenses affect the way people can  use, study, modify, and distribute  software. In general, open source licenses grant computer users  permission to use open source software for any purpose they wish . Some open source licenses—what some people call "copyleft" licenses—stipulate that anyone who releases a modified open source program must also release the source code for that program alongside it.   LibreOffice  and the  GNU Image Manipulation Program  are examples of open source software. b)    Describe Free Software with example Ans-  Free software” means  software that respects users' freedom and community . Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.  Thus, “free software” i...

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  A  blog  (a  truncation  of " weblog ") [1]  is a discussion or informational  website  published on the  World Wide Web  consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in  reverse chronological order , so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the  web page . Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, [ citation needed ]