01:198:170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Open-Source Software, Proprietary Software, Software License

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:170
• Professor: Stephen Stoll

Document Summary

Crowdsourcing: take large grps of people & join them together for a cause: combining contributions of large, unconstrained volunteer population 2 solve problem. Ie: wikipedia, be a martian, linux, apache. Crowdfunding: geared towards entrepreneurs who need investments, used for fundraising $: take large amounts of ppl 2 contribute small amounts of money. Electronic payments: you don"t need cash to pay for things; can be done through your phone/internet. Collaboration: grps of ppl work together 2 contribute 2 common goal: allows 4 increase in productivity. Protection of intellectual property: gives ownership of results: software products = owned by company; you own right to use it (not allowed to sell/ share it) Software license agreements: individual & commercial use: you have right to use it, but ownership = limited, distribution, sharing/copying, open/proprietary licenses. Proprietary software: company owns it private source code. Open source software: readily available 4 free publicly available software: however, you pay for support/installation.