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MACUL 2007 Handout and techLearning Article by Miguel Guhlin
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Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials—typically, their source code allowing users to create user-generated software content. Some consider it as a philosophy, and others consider it as a pragmatic methodology. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet and its enabling of diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.[1] Subsequently, open source software became the most prominent face of open source practices.
Citation:
Wikipedia, (2006). Open Source. Retrieved December 29, 2006, from Copyright Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Freeware is copyrighted computer software which is made available for use free of charge, for an unlimited time, as opposed to shareware where the user is required to pay (e.g. after some trial period). Authors of freeware often want to "give something to the community", but also want credit for their software and to retain control of its future development. Sometimes when programmers decide to stop developing a freeware product, they will give the source code to another programmer or release the product's source code as to the public as free software.
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Wikipedia, (2006). Freeware. Retrieved December 29, 2006, from Copyright Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
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