How Do You Define Open Source, Digital Rights Management, And File Sharing Concepts?
• Reach your own conclusions as to the possible definitions. These are open to interpretation and will expand or change over time as new elements arise and as aspects of open source, DRM, and file sharing solidify across all communities of users. The definitions at the moment are considered to be as follows: • Open source: This means “a program in which the source code of a computer program is made available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge.” The code is typically developed by larger “group of programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community.” • The idea of open source “rejects secrecy and centralized control of creative work in favor of decentralization, transparency, and unrestricted (“open”) sharing of information.” • Source refers to the human-readable source code of computer programs as opposed to the compiled programming language, or object code, that run on computers but cannot be easily underst
