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Open Source vs Free Software

Author
Lauri Laineste
IMKE, Tallinn University
Keywords
open source, free software, gnu, license, software
Abstract
In this short article Lauri Laineste takes a closer look at the ‘Open Source’ and ‘Free Software’ definitions. The point of this article is to make clear what are the differences between Open Source,- and Free Software schools and why there is a need for two […]

TV – a changing environment

Since TV was invented in the 30’s, it has been the revolutionary product, that every single home needed to have. TV was like the heart of the home - after a long workday all the family came together, had a dinner and ofcourse, watched the Larry King’s show or 8 o’clock news. Actually, a nice […]

Mobile Revolution

Mobiles are just not for talking anymore. Actually they havent been for that for some good years now, but today these small gadgets look especially hot and attractive. Richard Wray (2007) points out, that there are approx. 3 billion mobile phones in the world today and another billion next-generation phones will be sold already next […]

Semantic Web

Who hasn’t spent hours in the web searching for something specific and making complex queries. Already today, there is way too much data from different sources in the net and the number of all kind of documents and unstructured HTML pages which contain no metadata is growing rapidly. There’s a need for smart applications […]