change and improve the software. Three characteristics are: Freedom to run the program for any purpose, freedom to redistribute copies, and freedom to improve the program and release your improvements to the public. 4. What is the Free Software Foundation/GNU? What is Linux? Which parts of the Linux operating system did each provide? Who else has helped build and refine this operating system? GNU is a project for creating an operating system, both kernel and system programs. Linux is a free kernel
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Systems - GNU-GPL Paul Ray POS/355 March 23, 2014 Ptof. Singh, MBA, PMP, CCIE Open Closed Source Systems - GNU-GPL The Linux kernel is distributed under the GNU general public license (GPL), the terms of which are set out by the Free Software Foundation. (Stallings, 2011) Linux is not public-domain software. Public domain implies that the authors have waived copyrights in the software, but copyright rights in Linux code are still held by the code's various authors. Linux is free software, however
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Freedom Writers: A Message of Hope According to Joseph Campbell, a scholar of mythology states that, a hero is one who hero gives his or her life to something bigger than him or herself, to some higher end not to mention also the hero undergoes trials and tests to see if he or she has the courage, the knowledge and the capacity to survive. To explain what this means I will use the protagonist Erin Gruwell (starring Hilary Swank), in the 2007 drama film, Freedom Writers, directed and written by Richard
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EULA Assignment End User License Agreements Microsoft Software License Terms User Rights Granted by Microsoft Write a paragraph defining the rights of the user in Microsoft’s EULA. Your paragraph must include what rights the user has to use, copy, and install the software. Can you sell or transfer the software to someone else? On how many devices may you install the software? Microsoft’s EULA states that the user has the right to install 1 copy of the software on 1 computer to be used by
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them from the uncertainties of religion. Here the effort is not to make science spiritual but to make religion scientific. But most of the longing for reconciliation comes from the religious side. With a $3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, whose considerable resources are fueling much of the metaphysics boom, a modest newsletter on science and religion was reborn this year as a glossy magazine called
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that furniture retailing was a strictly local business (Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA, 1996). Moving full steam ahead, Kamprad purchased a faltering IKEA franchise in Canada in 1979. Within 3 years, the canadian store was a lucrative business, and the management team set their sights on the Unites States. By 2002, the IKEA Group was the world's leading furniture retailer (Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA, 1996). Their 154 stores, across 22 countries, and 286 million customers made up gross sales of $12 billion
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goal to achieve. Relevant - goal should be an important step forward. Timed - specified period of time, where the objectives should be achieved for example: by the end of the year. Aims and objectives for 3 different business British Heart foundation is a small business in Tertiary sector. Their aims to prevent people dying from heart diseases and help people who need their help. Objectives they can cooperate with other institutions, invite people to buy their product through make a poster or
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In the book, The Freedom Writers Diary, some things were not added into the movie. They changed the perspective, so instead of the students telling the story and the teacher secondary, like in the book, the teacher (Ms. Gruwell) tells the story, and the students are secondary. Also, the entries are worse and more horrifying than in the movie, like abuse, drugs, peer pressure, illness, and violence. I think that these changes, in the book version to the movie version, were to have a 3rd person
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the strength of the whole peer-to-peer modle that is used. The whole general idea of FOSS arose in the 1980’s through one Richard Stallman who was the founder and creator of the GNU project which later went on to become the Free Software Foundation. FOSS philosophy simply states that it is the right of every user to use, modify, and distribute computer software for any purpose. The right to use, distribute, modify and redistribute derivative versions, the so called "four freedoms," are based
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GNU Project The GNU project and was founded by Richard Stallman in 1984. GNU is a recursive acronym and stands for GNU is Not Unix. (Free Software Foundation, 2014) The project was put together to make free operating system available to the programming community. The term free was not meant to mean as in money but free as in a person can change, add or develop from the source. The project itself was based on Unix and was created from scratch. This Unix like operating system was called the GNU OS
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