Free and open source software

Free and open source software

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  Presented by: Amit Bishwas 128 1
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  Contents  Introduction ofFOSS  History  What is free software?  What is open source?  Advantages  Disadvantages  Why free software is better than open source?  Examples  Major free software website 2
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  Introduction of FOSS liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code.  freedom to copy and re-use the software, rather than to the price of the software  Here is 1 slogan, FSF said whether it is right or wrong "think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer". 3
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  History  Free SoftwareFoundation (FSF) was founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman in the U.S.  Later on, freely modifiable source code in 1991 by Linus Torvalds  with version 0.12 in February 1992, he relicensed under the GNU General Public License  In 1998 FOSS name was given. 4
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  What is freesoftware? free as a matter of liberty, not price distributed in source form freely modified and redistributed focuses on the philosophical freedoms 5
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  What is opensource? marketing name for Free Software the fact that the source code of Free Software is open to and for the world to take, to modify and to reuse 6
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  Advantages  Availability ofsource code and right to modify it  Reuse of code and shorter development time  Right to use the software in any way  Lower development cost 7
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  Disadvantages  Disclosure oftrade secrets  No single entity on which the future of the software depends  No “black boxes” are possible  Fewer conflicting due to marketing pressure 8
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  Why free softwareis better than open source? Software can get for zero price Gives certain freedoms to the users 9
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  Examples  Linux (orGNU/Linux) freeBSD  Open BSD  Net BSD  GNU/Hurd 10
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  Major free softwarewebsites  www.slashdot.org  www.freshmeat.net  www.advogato.org  www.opensource.org  www.fsf.org 11
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  Linux distro  Ubuntulinux  Fedora  Xandros  Linspire  Win4lin  Edbuntu 12
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  Thank you 13