- NOR AMIRA BINTI MARFUR
- NORATIKA MAULAD RAMLI
1. What is open source software?
- Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.
In your opinion, why people prefer open source software over proprietary alternatives nowadays?
In our opinion,
people prefer open source software over proprietary alternatives nowadays because :
v Many users prefer open source software to proprietary software for
important, long-term projects.
v They have more control over
that kind of software.
v They can examine the code to make sure it is not doing anything they
do not want it to do.
v They can change parts of it
they do not like.
v Users who are not programmers also benefit from open source software
because they can use this software for any purpose they wish.
v People like open source software because it helps them become better
programmers.
v They can learn to make better
software by studying the source code others have written.
v They can also share their
work with others, inviting comment and critique.
v Some people prefer open source software because they consider it
more secure and stable than proprietary software.
v Because of anyone can view and modify open source software, someone
might spot and correct errors or omissions that a program's original authors
might have missed.
v Many programmers can work on
a piece of open source software without asking for permission from original
authors, open source software is generally fixed, updated, and upgraded
quickly.
v Because of the source code
for open source software is distributed publicly, users that rely on software
for critical tasks can be sure their tools would not disappear or fall into
disrepair if their original creators stop working on them.
Conditional formatting. Both
spreadsheet packages offer conditional formatting , but Microsoft offers a lot
more flexibility and control in this realm.
Grammar checking. Microsoft
Word has a built-in grammar-checking tool. The Open Office community has provided
a few add-ons that you could install to provide grammar checking, but they're
generally considered to be less robust than Word's default options.
Microsoft Office's "Smart
Art" diagrams. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel all introduced a new feature in
the 2007 version: Smart Art, a useful feature that allows you to easily create
diagrams in a many common formats (like pyramids, cyclical diagrams, org
charts, and more). OpenOffice doesn't offer anything that comes close to the
diagramming power
Document-viewing options. The
options to view documents are not as powerful in Open Office's Writer as they
are in Word. You can only choose to see a "Web View," which doesn't
show all the formatting that you've included for a printed document, or a full-page
layout that shows the entirety of the page including headers, footers, and
margins. Word gives you several more choices, including a nice view that
preserves the page layout without showing margins or headers. |
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Open-source applications often
cost nothing. OpenOffice is free .
Updates to open-source
applications also cost nothing. As an open-source product, OpenOffice updates
are free; the same is not always true of Microsoft updates.
You can do what you like with
open-source code. You can study OpenOffice and adapt it to your needs. You can
improve the program or build something completely new with it and release your
changes to the public.
OpenOffice tends to be somewhat
simpler to understand, and can output to some more useful file formats. For
instance:
A single interface for the
whole suite. OpenOffice provides an overall gateway to easily get to any of the
individual components. Using Microsoft Word, you need to open each application
separately.
File size. OpenOffice's native format
generally creates much smaller files than Microsoft Office.
HTML production. HTML purists
tend to favor Writer's markup to Word's, though few people with knowledge of
HTML use either editor in producing web pages.
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