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Unit II Hardware/software
2.1. Open Source nice, simple and free
Since the beginning of the computer history the intellectual property rights were the
issue. Every man wants to be rewarded for hard work, that is fully understandable. But due
to that fact accessibility to the new technology in fast changing IT world is restricted for
those who do not have enough resources to be up to date. This is where Open Source
license software comes across. The idea of creating software with license that provides free
access to the software for all users. The criteria that software must meet with in order to be
qualified as open are: free distribution, object code, source code distributed with the
program and any of its modifications.
This is, for some people unusual, view over licensing bring to the world opportunity for
people all over the world to create much bigger and more complicated projects. For
example Apache HTTP Server, e-commerce platform osCommerce, GNU/Linux operating
systems or Unix-like operating systems.
Arduino Uno prototyping platform is what I have chosen.
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