neljapäev, 13. november 2014

Week 5: Three examples of license choise and its infuence on a project


Linux


Linux main difference from other operating systems is that Linux is free and open-source software under GPL license, which means that anyone can study, share, copy, modify it for free and use it commercially or non-commercially. Due to this strategy Linux has achieved big popularity. Nowadays it has a lot of distributions, it is a leading operating system on servers and supercomputers. Even one of the main mobile operating systems such as Android is based on it. Hardly Linux could achieve such popularity if it was payment-based from the beginning.

Gimp

Gimp is a free and open source (under GNU GPL license) graphics editor, that is used for image editing. It is a good alternative for Adobe Photoshop for those, who do not want to pay for this kind of software. GIMP is powerful user friendly software with a good functionality and free updates due to what GIMP won a lot of users.

LibreOffice


LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite under LGPLv3 license. It is the default office suite of most Linux distributions, it is also developed for Microsoft Windows and OS X. In comparison with Microsoft Office, for me LibreOffice is less comfortable to use and has lack of functionality. But as LibreOffice is free and provides base functionality it got a lot of users (around 25 million downloads in 2013)

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