programming languages? Yes. What is an Integrated Circuit? Semiconductor containing transistors‚ capacitors‚ and resistors. Invented at Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. Smaller‚ faster‚ more reliable‚ and less expensive. Who wrote an open letter to hobbyist? Bill Gates. What is Ethics? Rational examination of morality ‚ evaluation of people’s behavior‚ a way to decide the best thing to do What is a Relativist? No universal norms of right and wrong What idea is Objectivism is based
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changed a lot and starts getting better and better. Then we have open source ERP. I think open source ERP changed the ERP market even though there are lots of people think open source ERP is an dead end. During my research and the presentation of the classmates‚ I find out that open source is a really important breakthrough for the whole IT industry. I will explain my reason in detail later in my paper. There are some major open source ERP brands on the market like‚ compiere‚ OpenERP‚ ERP5 etc. These
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Open source is a term that allows individuals or end-user to modify software or programs for the purpose of study‚ use‚ copy‚ or share its source code. This concept applies to operating system such as GNU. GNU is a Unix-like operating system that is free software – it respects your freedom. The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!” (GNU Operating System‚ 2013). It is a completely free software system that is upward-compatible with Unix (GNU Operating System‚ 2013). The GPL also
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June 6‚ 2013 Open and Closed Source Systems POS/355 Option One GNU Introduction The GNU General Public License has served a major role in the way people think of programs today. The GNU‚ or simply GPL is originally written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The case is‚ most software’s don’t want you to share or change the program. This means that they are trying to take away freedoms of having the program. What the GNU General Public License is designed to do is the
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The world’s biggest software maker felt that it had been robbed‚ so much so that they posted a high-level summary of 235 patents that were allegedly violated by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)‚ including the Linux Kernel‚ Samba‚ OpenOffice.org‚ and others .Microsoft does not play when it comes to patent infringement‚ but did they have a case?”… So if Microsoft ever sued Linux distributor Red Hat for patent infringement‚ for instance‚ OIN might sue Microsoft in retaliation‚ trying to enjoin distribution
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Open and Closed Source Systems June 24‚ 2013 Open and Closed Source System What Open Source Means Open-Source means it is free. No one owns it‚ so there is no source code‚ no key code‚ and no licensing to purchase. When Linus Torvalds created Linux‚ he determined that the more people or‚ the more minds delving into the software can make the system more creative‚ more improved‚ and the possibilities are endless. Thus‚ he gave Linux to the world as a free open-source operating system ("Damicon;
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Abstract Open-Source Mobile Application Development for Emergency Data Collection This Master degree project identified disasters and emergencies as a global humanitarian and technological challenge. Emergency management organizations ’ need for access to accurate and up-to-date information about the emergency situation‚ to help respond to‚ recover from and mitigate the effects of disasters and emergencies‚ present a challenge to the field of Geomatics. Today the use of remote sensing
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Introduction to the Asterisk Open Source PBX http://asterisk.org Mark Spencer Linux Support Services‚ Inc. http://www.linux-support.net Presented first at Libre Software Meeting 2002 Bordeaux‚ France July 9‚ 2002 Page 1/16 Introduction to Asterisk Asterisk is a fully Open Source‚ hybrid TDM and packet voice PBX and IVR platform. Asterisk is and has been Open Source under GNU GPL (with an exception permitted for linking with the OpenH323 project‚ in order to provide H.323 support). Commercial
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Research Assignment 4.1 FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) had some trouble in 2006 when Microsoft submitted 235 patents that were allegedly violated by FOSS. Microsoft created these patents in order to collect royalties from companies in the “free world” (companies/people using free software). Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation contended that software is a mathematical algorithm and is not patentable. Moglen wrote‚ “It’s a tinderbox. As the commercial confrontation between free
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operating system is open source or closed source. Operating systems are created with programming code. Programmers are responsible for writing the source code‚ which is compiled into executable code. This executable code is what creates the product ran on computers. An open source system is a system in which the source code is visible. A closed source system keeps the source code hidden. System Differences There are more differences than visible code between open and closed source systems. One of
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