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ALPHA ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE

(AFFILIATED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS)


PORUR, CHENNAI – 600 116.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS


SHIFT – I

NOTES OF LESSON
FOR
OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES
(SZ24B)

EVEN SEMESTER
SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Introduction – Why Open Source – Open Source –Principles, Standards Requirements,
Successes – Free Software – FOSS – Internet Application Projects

UNIT - II
Open source – Initiatives, Principles, Methodologies, Philosophy, Platform, Freedom,
OSSD, Licenses – Copy right, Copy left, Patent, Zero Marginal Technologies, Income
generation opportunities, Internalization

UNIT - III
Case Studies – Apache, BSD, Linux, Mozilla (Firefox), Wikipedia, Joomla, GCC, Open
Office.

UNIT - IV
Open Source Project –Starting, Maintaining –Open Source – Hardware, Design,
Teaching & Media.

UNIT - V
Open Source Ethics – Open Vs Closed Source – Government – Ethics – Impact of Open
source Technology – Shared Software – Shared Source

TEXT BOOK:
1. Kailash Vadera, Bhavyesh Gandhi, “Open Source Technology”, Laxmi Publications Pvt
Ltd 2012, 1st Edition.

REFERENCE BOOK:
1. Fadi P. Deek and James A. M. McHugh, “Open Source: Technology and Policy”,
Cambridge Universities Press 2007.

WEB REFERENCES:
Coursera online course – Open Source Software Development Methods -
https://www.coursera.org/learn/open-source-software-development-methods
UNIT I
UNIT II
UNIT III
UNIT IV
UNIT V

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