lunes, 27 de octubre de 2008

Free software

We can classify the software into two big groups:
  1. Proprietary software
  2. Free software
Click in any of them to see a complete explanation.

Almost all the software (As Ubuntu or OpenOffice) we are using in this course is free software. So you can get all this programs for free and also if you want you have the freedom to modify them.
On the contrary, the famous Microsoft Windows operating system, or Microsoft Office are examples proprietary software. Those programs are really close and expensive.
Let see some other examples:


You can see an interesting documentary about how GNU Linux operating system was made.





1 comentario:

Unknown dijo...

Hola, al pinchar en un perfil me ha llevado a este blog. Trato de ponerme en contacto con María. Ha participado en un sorteo pero no ha dejado mail de contacto y claro, no puedo enviarle el numero de participación. Si pudiera pasarse de nuevo para dejarlo se lo agradecería, sino no puede participar porque no hay forma de localizarla.

Muchas gracias!

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Xris