Information Technology for BusinessCIA Presentation

Welcome to the world of

Open source

What is Open Source ?

The term “Open Source"

refers to software that

is liberally licensed,

allowing the end

user more freedoms than

conventional software

licenses.

Open Source V/s Freeware

History

• MIT community.

•IBM’s Airline Control Program.

• In the 1970s AT&T distributed early

versions of

UNIX at no cost to government and

academic researchers.

• The advent of Usenet(Newsgroups,

Duke University) in the early 1980s

further connected the programming

community and provided a simpler

way for programmers to share their

software and contribute to software

others had written.

What really Happened ?

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, computer vendors

and software-only companies began routinely

charging for software licenses, marketing it as

"Program Products" and imposing legal restrictions on

new software developments, now seen as assets,

through copyrights ,trademarks, and leasing contracts.

In 1976 Bill Gates signaled the change of the times

when he wrote his now-famous Open Letter to

Hobbyists, sending out the message that what hackers

called "sharing" was, in his words, "stealing". In 1979,

AT&T, for example, began to enforce its restrictive

licences when the company decided it might profit by

selling the Unix system

Y Open Source ?

All software has source code. Open source software grants

every user access to that code. Freedom means choice. Choice

means power.

Open source simply creates better software. Everyone

collaborates, the best technology wins. Not just within one

company, but among an Internet-connected, worldwide

community. New ideas and code travel the world in an instant.

Have

you

heard

of them

?

Better

start

using

them…

Make

the

world a

better

place to

live…