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Define Open source software. Give at least two examples of OSS. Justify that free software is not open source software. |
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Answer» OSS can be studied, copied, redistributed freely and even modified according to one's need without seeking any kind of permission. In order to modify such software the developers also provide the source code to the users. But, here, "free" means freedom to use. Ex:- Linux, MySQL Lots of freeware can be downloaded from the internet for various different purposes such as currency converters, drawing graphs and charts etc. But freeware may not come with the source code. |
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