Networking and Open Standards (OLD) - Free and Open Source Software
CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Revision Notes Chapter - 1 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE(OSS) Free Software: It means a software which is freely accessible, free to use, changed, improved, copied, distributed without any payments. Free software is a program used and distributed at no charge to the user. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free software movment (2009). Four kinds of freedom 1. Freedom to run the program for any purpose. 2. Freedom to redistribute copies. 3. Freedom to study how the program works. 4. Freedom to improve the program and release your improvements to the public. Open Source Software(OSS) Definition: The categories of software / programs whose licenses do not impose much conditions. Open Source means the software which source code is freely available. Source code means the code of any program. Many Operating system is available in the market but most probably Linux Operating System. OSS work on four basic principles : 1....