Thursday, September 10, 2009

Week 7 Lecture - Open and Closed software

I have come to the conclusion that this subject is making me spend even more time on the computer.. like I don't spend enough time on here already. First of all - this blog requires me to come on here weekly. Second of all - Jasons lectures. Jason's lectures just show us even more cool/useless crappy stuff we can do/look at on the internet and so i spend time fiddling. Not saying it's a bad thing though! Pretty good actually :) especially since it is considered a subject.

In today's lecture Jason showed us some websites that do a number of different things but the most interesting part is a fair bit of the content is illegal in some way shape or form. Pretttty funny because the illegal softwares are what get used most such as Limewire, Bit torrent etc.

The Open Software - Freeware
Programs such as Itunes are considered to be freeware software.
They can be downloaded and saved to your computer for free and run on a memory stick.
The problem with them is they contract viruses - not good.

The Closed Software
Microsoft Office is considered to be a closed software.
Why? Because it is developed by a certain person/company and is strictly only available to whom they make it available, and YOU PAY FOR IT. Damn.
However - it has an advantage because people need it therefore they buy it.

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