Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Lecture 4 Free culture, Free society

Today, the lecture mainly talked about free culture and open software.


Last lecture talked about the virtual community which means that people get tother on the internet. This lecture not only motioned that but also talked about collaboration and choice. People should have choice in a free culture. However, in the free culture the copy right is very important issue. Usually, copy right is related the knowledge and creative common (CC) is the area the people share.

In the free software section, the code breaker defined that short edited cip from BBC documentary about source software. There are some software principles, for example, the freedom to run the program for and purpose and the freedom to study how the program works. The open source is attend to free software into the business it emphasis open rather than free. Free software like Linux and friefox can be seen it, use it , edits, under limited-right line. Software developed by teams of volunteers in the community, development goals set by community. Business modal is providing series support in the software.



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