Chapter TB Quiz: Question 12 Which of the following is NOT true regarding open s
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Chapter TB Quiz: Question 12 Which of the following is NOT true regarding open source software? Open source means the software is freely available to the general public. Users are free to suggest ideas for open source software but only a small group of carefully selected "committers" can implement the changes into the official releases of the software. The Internet has helped enable people around he world to contribute their time and expertise to develop or improve software Mainstream computer companies have no involvement with the open source software movement. Open source software is available for many types of software, including operating systems, programming languages, database management systems, and applications. … aessons Reremot, Remar ng elect a RESPONSE and then click the Next () button to move to the next question. You can revisit and change your answer at any point, until you submit the assignment for grading. 32:18 View A Reset 2 of 25Explanation / Answer
Answer: d. Mainstream computer companies have no involvement with the open source software movement - Not True
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a. open source means the software is freely available to the general public - True - it is always free to the public which is made public where the people have the ability to modify it and also they can able to ahre it.
b. users are free to suggest ideas for open source software but only a small group of carefully selected "committers" can implement the changes into the official releases of the software - True - because the open source software always encourages the prople for suggsting their ideas in all means for exposing and for maintaining the opensource software in a well being manner, but their implememtation can be made only the selected group of people by them to release the software officially.
c. Internet has helped enable people around the world to contribute their time and expertise to develop or improve software - True - because Internet is a media for connecting different peoples of different kind and also it plays a vital role in developing or improving the software by the people around the world.
d. Mainstream computer companies have no involvement with the open source software movement - Not True - open source always let the mainstream comapnies to develop the common infrastructure.
e. Open source software is available for many types of software, including operating systems, programming languages, database management system and applications. - True, beacuse for all the software or the some of the software, the open source license is always been supported by the open source software movement.