Lecture 4-Open /Free Software

The Lecture was basically about copyrights.Copyright refers to the legal rights of creators to control the use,reproduction and publication of their work.Lawrence Lessing is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-gorvernmental organisation that issue licences which legally allow people to copy and distribute stuff provided they credit the author or creator of the work. Some conditions however apply to the license provided by CC....license holders can only legally reuse or copy some works and not everything.
Difference between Proprietary and Open Software

• PS is paid for whereas OS is free
• Legally people are not allowed to go through PS whereas the source code for OS is freely available.
• The other thing about PS is that even if you buy the product, you'll only earn a license and not rights over the product
• Problems associated with OS are easily resolved whereas the PS take forever and yoou'll have to pay more money for them to be fixed.

Interestingly,afterthe lecture i realised that PS is not any inferior to the PS!!!