Computer Applications
Case Study 2
The open source software movement is a movement that supports the use of open source licenses for some softwares. It was started to spread the concept of open source software. It began in the late 80's with the launching of the GNU project by Richard Stallman. He shared a key role in the conceptualisation of freely shared source code.
Answer the following questions.
(i) Define the term open source.
(ii) What are the criteria to be followed for open source software?
(iii) How do programmers contribute to open source community?
(iv) Name any two open source softwares.
Computing Safety & Ethics
2 Likes
Answer
(i) Open source is a philosophy that promotes the free access and distribution of an end product, usually software or a program.
(ii) Four criteria that qualify a program to be Open source software are:
- Free redistribution is allowed.
- Source code is freely available.
- It can be copied and modified freely.
- There should be no discrimination against persons or groups in the license.
(iii) Programmers contribute to open source community by writing and exchanging programming code for software development.
(iv) Two open source softwares are Linux and Unix.
Answered By
2 Likes
Related Questions
Ayushi has to prepare a demo table in which she has to mention question number and its marking. Help her to write the code for the below table.
Write the HTML code to design the web page as shown below, considering the specifications that follow. You can write the code for given specifications.
(i) Title of the page is "IIT".
(ii) Font face of heading is "Cambria".
(iii) The color of the heading of the page is "Red".
(iv) Image used as "IIT.png".
Use link as:
For IIT Bombay as bombay.html
For IIT Kanpur as kanpur.html
For IIT Madras as madras.html
For IIT Delhi as delhi.html
For IIT Roorkee as roorkee.htmlWrite the HTML code to design the web page as shown below, considering the specifications that follow. You can write the code for given specifications.
(i) Background color of page is yellow.
(ii) Link color is black and visited link color is green.
(iii) Heading of the page is maroon.
(iv) Image used is mainrhino.jpg.
(v) Table border is 2px.
Case Study 1
Raman is a Computer Teacher in a private school. He has 4 computers in a computer lab where his colleague used to work. All the computers are stand alone and not connected with the Internet. He called a Network engineer to form a network of 4 computers. Answer the following questions in reference to the given situation.
(i) What type of Network will be formed?
(ii) Which application/software is required in all computers to browse Internet? Give two examples.
(iii) Write any two advantages of Computer Network.
(iv) Name any two ISP.