Week 12 – Topic 12 – Open and Free Source

Lecture –

The lecture this week talked about free and open source. Free software was created by Richard M Stallman and he wanted to create totally free operating system. There were 4 Free Software principles. The name free source was not appealing as a marketing point so to break into the business world, the name was changed to Open Source. Open source’s key is to include everybody, anyone can make a contribution. Despite its good points, such as the fact that it is not controlled by a large money hungry company, Open Source has got a few problems. Such as it’s survival is dependent on public participation.


Reading –

There were three readings for the week, but they were too long and interrupted my study for the exam so I chose to concentrate on my essay and my exam instead of doing the readings.


Tutorial –

The tutorial was basically a catch up on previous blogs, finishing your essay or doing the tutorial task for the week which is making a movie for Youtube. I chose to catch up on tasks and finish my essay before sending it off.