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Open Source/Free Software History

Posted on November 28, 2020 by ouradminuser

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1. Software In the 1950s generally started as:

A movement

Part of hardware purchases

Separately from the hardware

A Government program

2. "Free software" is software that:

Comes with no cost

Respects users' freedom

Is made to fight exclusively against authoritarianism

Comes with free hardware

3. The GNU Project was started:

To sell software to companies

To sell hardware

To use computers using only free software

As a Government program

4. The GNU Project was started by:

Bill Gates

Steve Jobs

Linus Torvalds

Richard Stallman

5. GNU stands for:

GNU's not Unix!

General Network University

Global Network Users

GNU Network Utilities

6. GNU was announced in the year:

1981

1983

1984

1993

7. The GNU General Public License (GPL) guarantees:

That software cannot be sold

freedom to run but not modify software

protection against unlawful sharing of software

freedom to run, study, share, and modify software

8. A copyright license that allows the source code to be used, modified and/or shared is called:

A free-source license.

A source-code license.

An open-software license.

An open-source license.

9. Open source software:

Cannot be sold

Can be sold

Must be written in a specific programming language

Can only be made by hackers and communities and not corporations

10. The most popular open-source operating system is:

GNU/Linux

Windows

FreeBSD

Unix

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