MGCR 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Platform As A Service, Copyright Infringement, Fixed Capital
1 Feb 2017
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Is lecture 10- net trends opensource and cloud computing. Conventional software firms: do no provide the source code for their commercial products. Treat their intellectual property as closely guarded secrets. Oss: the source code for oss products is openly shared: anyone can look at the source code, change it and even redistribute it provided the modified software continues to remain open and free, generally, its free. *some firms see oss as a threat undermining their economic model whereas some see it as an opportunity. Linux: an open source software operating system: linux powers everything from cell phones to stock exchanges, set-top boxes to supercomputers, found on 30% of the servers in corporate america. An acronym standing for linux, the apache web server software, the mysql database, and any of several programming languages that start with p (example: perl, python, or. Lamp software powers many of the sites you visit each day from facebook to youtube.
