Free software is designated software’s that provides users liberation and freedom of use. Open source softwares are free softwares which are designed by developers to be distributed free of cost for the benefit of community. These softwares also provide the code with which the user can modify and distribute the software under the same license.
In order to understand about the freeware and how it started we need to start from beginning . In the era of 50 and 60 almost all the softwares along with the source code was freely available with computer so people can change them according to their need. In those days computer companies make free software to increase the hardware sale.
When company called IBM (International business machine) started selling computers in the 1960s which was one of the first computer machines, they introduced some free software. These softwares were easy to modify and can be shared among different users. After some time IBM gain more success in the Community by launching some software which were written in an assembly language named as “Cobol”. (R.W.Bemer)
Computer was too expensive in earlier days to run single tasks at a time. So companies start working on such programs so that computer can able to work on multiple things at a time.MIT computer lab start working on it and developed a new system called “CTSS( compatible time sharing system)”.This System has the ability to connect 30 users together at a time with modem .
In early 70 a well know programmer named Ken Thompson who worked in bell laboratories (famous for Research work) developed an operating system called “UNICS (Uniplexed information and computing services)” and was later named as UNIX.UNIX is also one of the operating system that was dev...
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...lp through blogs or forums as no personnel assistance will be provided from developers of these softwares. (Rachna Kapur, July 2010)
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The notion that software should be free is one that is highly critiqued within the technology industry. Free, as in the idea that users can obtain the source code for any given program, and modify and redistribute it as they like. Currently most all software produced is proprietary in nature. Corporations pay developers to create proprietary software that they then obstruct (so that no modifications can be made), and sell (to turn a profit). Richard Stallman has been fighting the idea of proprietary software, and specifically software ownership, for decades. Stallman holds the stance that software ownership is a detriment to society, and stifles innovation, education, and social cohesion.
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Open source software development is taking place all over the world where part of the community develops individual modules, becoming necessary to establish standards and common definitions for open source software. These standards are established to define interaction between modules to insure interoperability of software. Software components which follow specific open standards can be replaced with other standard-compliant product, which allows the user more freedom to choose the component best suited to his needs and is not bound to a particular product, as with commercial software (Chauhan)
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DeveloperWorks provides articles, demos, podcasts, and tutorials to both IBM employees, customers and other developers for free (Pearlson & Saunders, 2013)
Watson, J. (2008). A history of computer operating systems (pp. 14-17). Ann Arbor, MI: Nimble Books.
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