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Software licenses
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- 1What is Open Source software?Promotes free access to the software (No payment or subscription is needed) to Its design and makes it free to share
- free of copyright usually available to everyone - 2What is proprietary software?Software is Owned by organisation access to software isn’t free
- copyrighted - 3What are the advantages to open source ?- no subscription or upfront cost is required to share or modify the source code
- many authors, enables multiple programmers to contribute to the program - 4What are the disadvantages to open source?- No guarantee that the source code works properly as there are no requirements for the code to be bug free
- support might not be readily available for users - 5What are the advantages to proprietary software?- Product should be bug free, any bugs detected can be patched with updates
- Help is readily available if a problem occurs - 6What are the advantages to proprietary software ?- there is an upfront or subscription needed
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- GCSE Computing Flashcards on Software licenses , created by Crawford _Studying on 25/03/2022.
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