The Computer Revolution/Open Source Software

Open source software is created with the intention of making the source code public for it to be changed or improved upon by people or businesses. Open source software is allowed to call itself open source if it has a copyright, but the people must be able to change the coding, but those changes must be shared with the community and the original copyright notice can not be changed. The concept behind open source is the belief that information of software should be shared freely in order to benefit everybody. A couple of foundations behind the open source movement and creators of open source software and content are the Mozilla Foundation, Linux Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Linux Foundation, Open Source Initiative, Creative Commons, Python Software Foundation, and Apache Software Foundation. thumb|Open Source Program Software Web browser - Mozilla Firefox Image editing – GIMP Vector image editing - Inkscape File compression – 7-Zip Media player – VLC Audio editing - Audacity Internet currency – Bitcoin Operating system - Linux File-Transfer-Protocol server/client – Filezilla Server – XAMPP Network scanner - Angry IP Scanner Open Source Software thumb|300px|LibreOffice start screen LibreOffice is a software suite that can be used as an alternative to Microsoft Office. LibreOffice programs a very similar to MS office they just have different names. LibreOffice provides six different programs: Writer- which is a word processing program where you can compose documents. Calc which is a spreadsheet where you can analyse reports. Impress- where you can create multimedia presentations Draw- which lets you produce 3D illustrations. Base- which is a database where you can create different reports, tables and queries Math- where you can create mathematical formulas. LibreOffice is free for download and free of any license fees and anyone can use LibreOffice for any purpose. https://www.libreoffice.org Open Source Software Distribution Websites https://launchpad.net/ http://sourceforge.net/ Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, Introductory, 13th Edition