Assignment Week 6 Free and Open Source Software has been around for quite some time. Free software has always been a controversy. This time someone is trying to take a stance against it. More than just someone but a major software company namely Microsoft. The whole issue is coming against software patents. Patents are there to protect the make‚ use‚ and selling of an invention but in this case would deal with software. Microsoft is not keen on the idea of software being readily available especially
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A Definition of Open Source Open source technology is defined as the production and development philosophy of allowing end users and developers to not only see the source code of software‚ but modify it as well. The Linux operating system is a one of the best-known examples of open source software technology. Pros and Cons of Open Source for Developers From a developer’s point of view‚ open source technologies provide a platform on which to build custom solutions. Rather than develop‚ say
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Boston. DOI 10.1515/bmt-2013-4182 EEGLAB – AN OPEN SOURCE MATLAB TOOLBOX FOR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Clemens Brunner1 ‚ Arnaud Delorme2 and Scott Makeig2 1 2 Institute for Knowledge Discovery‚ Graz University of Technology‚ Austria Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience‚ Institute for Neural Computation‚ University of California San Diego‚ CA‚ USA clemens.brunner@tugraz.at Abstract: EEGLAB is a widely used open-source MATLAB toolbox for analysis of electrophysiological
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Open Source Software Case Studies Examining its Use April 2003 The Dravis Group San Francisco‚ CA info@dravis.net 415-665-8745 Open Source Software: Case Studies Examining its Use April 2003 Table of Contents Executive Summary 5 Summary of the Case Studies 5 Afilias‚ Ltd. - Open Source Database and the Internet. 7 DevIS - Providing Solutions to the US Government. 9 Largo‚ FL - Open Source Software Supports the City. 11 Marienhospital – Reducing Costs
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Microsoft & Free Open Source Software (FOSS) | | | | In 2006‚ Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) was facing some dire consequences for allegedly violating 235 of Microsoft’s patents. Since then FOSS has done moderately well overall. Free software has become a well-liked alternative for many businesses as opposed to proprietary software. This is true‚ not just here in the USA but all over the world. In 2010‚ Global Graphics‚ a free software provider‚ took a survey
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DATABASE APPLICATION SOFTWARE A database application is a computer program whose primary purpose is entering and retrieving information from a computer-managed database. Early examples of database applications were accounting systems and airline reservations systems‚ such as SABRE‚ developed starting in 1957. A characteristic of modern database applications is that they facilitate simultaneous updates and queries from multiple users. Systems in the 1970s might have accomplished this by having
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FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: A TUNNEL TO NIGHT OR LIGHT Authored By: ANMOL CHAWLA & NAMRATA BEHERA ABSTRACT Since the Industrial Revolution‚ humankind has sought ways to become more efficient in all realms of life from production at the factory to cooking meals at home. Today the mediating force between technology and humans is software. Life of humans has been enhanced and their standard of living has increased with the advent of new technologies. The creation of computer‚
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Science Research Journal Vol.1‚Issue.7/May. 2013 ISSN : 2319-8435 Research Papers OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARES SUKHWINDER RANDHAWA Assistant Librarian Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) Abstract Open source software are those which permit execution‚ copy‚ read‚ distribution and improvement of the software without any restrictions. Library Management Software (LMS)‚ is an enterprise resource planning system for a library‚ used to track items owned
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Open source and private -collective model of innovation |1 INTRODUCTION Having written the paper on the open source software development as an example of private-collective innovation model Eric von Hippel and Georg von Krogh opened the door to a new area of study for organisation scientists. The paper has achieved widespread recognition amongst fellow theorists and has been used as a basis for further investigation of and expanding the topic. Additionally‚ it has prompted practical perspectives
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QUALITY ASSURANCE IN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW Abstract Background : A software development methodology was initiated from the concept of sharing the source code. In 1998 it was named as open source software development. Objective : To collect and analyse reported issues on quality assurance in open source software development Method : Based on the guidelines for conducting a Systematic Literature Review(SLR) by Kitchenham. Results : This paper present
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