Abstract:
"Unlike Microsoft’s Windows, nobody owns Linux. Linux is an Open Source operating system, and today’s most dramatically successful open-source platform. Linux is very popular in education, Internet service applications, software development shops, and (increasingly) in small businesses.
Open Source Software programs are programs whose licenses give users the freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and modify the program, and to redistribute copies of either the original or modified program. It is very useful because many users can take its benefits through the Internet and it is more secure than their closed-source counterparts against crack attacks. Indirectly, everybody who sends email or uses the Web is using open-source software all the time. But Open Source development involves effort, so there has to be payment for that effort. Not paying for software will ultimately kill the industry. Why will programmers continue to contribute code if they can't make money from it? Customers will never trust something that is free. Such more consequences arise due to Open Source software.
Unicode is a multi-byte character representation system for computers, which provides for the encoding and exchanging of all of the text of the world's languages. Unicode is not only just a programming tool, but also a political and economic tool. Unicode allows programs to utilize any of the world's character sets and therefore support any language. Unicode allows programmers to provide software that ordinary people can use in their native language.
Linux has a large degree of commitment to Unicode. Support for Unicode is embedded into both the kernel and the code development libraries."
Open Source Software programs are programs whose licenses give users the freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and modify the program, and to redistribute copies of either the original or modified program. It is very useful because many users can take its benefits through the Internet and it is more secure than their closed-source counterparts against crack attacks. Indirectly, everybody who sends email or uses the Web is using open-source software all the time. But Open Source development involves effort, so there has to be payment for that effort. Not paying for software will ultimately kill the industry. Why will programmers continue to contribute code if they can't make money from it? Customers will never trust something that is free. Such more consequences arise due to Open Source software.
Unicode is a multi-byte character representation system for computers, which provides for the encoding and exchanging of all of the text of the world's languages. Unicode is not only just a programming tool, but also a political and economic tool. Unicode allows programs to utilize any of the world's character sets and therefore support any language. Unicode allows programmers to provide software that ordinary people can use in their native language.
Linux has a large degree of commitment to Unicode. Support for Unicode is embedded into both the kernel and the code development libraries."
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