In todays lecture we loooked at 1. the community 2. collaboration and 3. choice . with respect to software. we discussed rcreative commons first of all . creative commons (or CC) was creatied by lawrence lessig in december 2002 with the purpose of enabling some rights to intellectual property and software property rather than having all rights reserved.within this community anyone may copy and distribute so long as the licensee credits the creator and licensor but must 1. be totally non commercial 2. make or produce no derivatives and 3. share and share alikejthe intellectual content.
Software is separated into first of all proprietary software and free software. A free software community called GNU ( which stands for GNUs Not Unix) was created by Richard Stallman in the 1981 so as to make freely available software to the world. This is comparable to proprietary software eg Microsoft. The open source community was thus established and it was named so as to avoid the use of the word "free".