Freeware Shareware It is free to use It is free for limited period, later need license It can be distributed freely May or may not be distributed freely Exp- Adobe PDF reader, Open Office Exp- Antivirus, Tally
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Free Software Proprietary Software It is free to use it is not fee It’s source code is publically available It’s source code is protected It is managed by community of developers It is managed by team or individual developed it License is not needed to use it License is needed to use it.
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OSS FLOSS It is Open Source Software It is Free Libre and Open source Software Only source code is free that can be modified It is free and open source both.
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Free Software Open Software It is freely available without source code It is freely available with source code It cannot be modified and redistributed It can be modified and redistributed It is not so reliable It is reliable Exp: chrome, adobe reader, GIMP Exp: Linux, PHP, Firefox
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Open source software are software whose source code is available to customers and it can be modified and redistributed without any limitation. an OSS may come free of cost or with a payment of nominal charges that its developers may charge in the name of development support of software. Exp– MySQL, GIMP, Open Office, Firefox
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―OSI : OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE ―FLOSS : FREE LIBRE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ―FSF : FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ―GNU : GNU’s Not Unix (recursive acronym) ―GPL : GENERAL PUBLIC LICENCE ―W3C : WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM ―OSS : OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
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We can protect out digital properties by:Anti-Temper Solutions- there are many anti-temper solutions which protect our digital properties from hacking or cracking.Legal Clause: Add legal clause in your digital properties like Watermarks, Terms of Service etc. to protect from illegal use.Limited Sharing: share your source code only with trusted individuals.
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Digital Property refers to any information created by you that exists in digital form, either online or on an electronic storage media. Threats to digital properties are:Cracking- there are many tools that can crack your digital property and get unauthorized access.Plagiarism- developers can steal your source code and create plagiarized versions of your digital property.
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To avoid plagiarism: •Give credit to another person’s idea, opinion or concept wherever use. •Paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words •Do your own work •Cite your sources scrupulously.
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Plagiarism means ‘Stealing’. It is an act of copying someone else work and content and publish or popularize it as your own work without giving credit to creator or without citing the source of information.
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