Professional Practices

Free and Open source Softwares

Week 5-C
WHAT IS F.O.S.S. ?

 Free and open source software can be classified as free software and open
source software. That is anyone is freely licensed to use, study and change
the software in any way.

 The source code is openly shared so that the people freely are
encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of software.

 This is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under

restrictive copyright and the source code is hidden from the user, so that the
right holders (the software publishers) can sell binary executable file.
FREE & OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

 There are two terms to separate “free” and “open source” in FOSS.

 Free as in freedom of speech not as in free things.

 Open mainly points to Open Source Code of the program, available for
others.

 So free and open source software is in some ways free but the source
code is available for analysis.
OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES

Proprietary programs Open source alternative

 Microsoft Windows  Linux Mint or BOSS Linux

 Internet explorer or Google  Firefox or Chromium
Chrome  Open Office or Neo Office
 Microsoft Office
 GIMP
 Adobe Photoshop
 Songbird and VLC media
 iTunes and Windows media player player
 skype  QuteCom
FREE SOFTWARE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

free software open source software

 free software is a software for which  open source is a software whose

every one has a right not only to source code is freely available. that
inspect and study the source code is with out any requirement for
but also to use it for any desired payment or any other obstacles for
purpose without monitory or other any one to inspect and study.
restriction.
 Open source software is more or less
 free software is a good, morally indifferent to moral issues
right, thing to do. concerning software sharing.
MYTHS ABOUT OPEN SOURCE
(FOSS STANDS FOR FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE)
 FOSS is free.
 FOSS isn't reliable or supported.
 Making a software open source, anyone can change it.
 The open source license is too liberal.
 if you make your software open source, volunteer coders will fix all of
your problems for free.
ADVANTAGES OF OPEN SOURCE

Availability of source code.

1. source code to understand and learn from.
2. do not have to reinvent the wheels.
3.free as in freedom Less
dependent on vendor
4. can choose additional
support.
5.can fix bugs and adopt to change in requirements as well as
technology. Quality and customizability in open source is better.

Costs is much less than proprietary softwares.

OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT MODEL
LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

 Linux is a computer operating system assembled under the model of free

and open source software development and distribution.
 originated in GNU Project, initiated in 1983 by Richard Stallman, in the free
software foundation. More than 90% of today's supercomputers use Linux. It
powers around 4.8% of today's modern computers. Thousands of distributers
are available like.
1. Debian
2. Open SUSE
3. Fedora
4. BOSS Linux
OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

 open source programming language are those that are released under
open
source licenses

 open source programming languages are

 Perl a general purpose programming languages.
 PHP a scripting language suited for web .
 Python a general purpose programming languages.
 Ruby a general purpose programming languages.
 PHDL hardware discription language used for PC board design.
 Tk/Tcl a scripting language.
POPULARITY OF APACHE WEB SERVER
CONSLUSION

 FOSS gives common platform for sharing ideas and putting them into action by
developers or other people who wishes to improve a product/software.
 We are in open source revolution where people collaborate to create, produce
software or technology.
 Based upon the key advantage of open source technology, we can finally conclude the
open source deserves the increasing popularity.
 GNU General Public Licenses http://www.gnu.org
 Open source licenses http://opensource.org/licenses
 Open source initiative and information http://opensource.org
 Repository of open source software http://sourceforge.net
 open source software development http://github.com