What Is Free Software

The importance of free software in the micro SME Small and medium businesses looking for in computing the solution to their order will be found disorder and have to pay for it as it is required. There is nothing wrong in paying for a product in exchange receive long as actually receive the product in question and not just the limited right to use it as is the case when buying a proprietary software license or copyright.

Free software appeals to freedom as one of its greatest strengths. Unfortunately due to the flexibility of the English language tends to relate the purely free software with one of the meanings of the word "free? that can translate into Castilian either free, free, or without. Free in the context of "free software? makes allusion to the user's freedom to do what he pleases with the software rather than what the auscencia free or something. The rationale of free software need not be an expert in agronomy to know what they are harmful and dangerous monoculture on the environment for many reasons. For example, if the crop from being contaminated by a pest, pest or disease that may become uncontrollable and jeopardize the entire production and thus affect all people who rely on monoculture. Free software is born due to several reasons: The abolition of some systems: Developers of the 80 were affected by several companies developing software and hardware suddenly stopped their activities and stopped producing machines on which to run many tools and software.

This abrupt stoppage left many developers with a very bitter taste as they saw it as a day for another all these were very useful tools that were reduced to simple computer files that had no value. All this served as a motivation to form the free software movement, a movement in which the software is "crossplatform? or platform, meaning that you can install on the iPod, watch, cell phone or computer in your home, thus ensuring that the software is not nothing but condensed knowledge does not die when the company leader happens when you close your doors and pursue a more lucrative business. So what is sought is to create pieces of software that actually have a transcendental evolution and actually contribute to social development because of the ease to purchase copies.

The magic and power of Unix at home:

Unix is ​​an operating system very reliable high performance was designed specifically for mainframe computers which were located at major universities or large companies. The average person could hardly have access to such systems, one of the reasons that inspired Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU ambisioso leading a project that was completely reprogram the operating system more reliable and successful of the moment, for his next scheduled emacs, a word processor that would replace the old vim, just as other developers joined the project rescheduling program to program all the unix tools to make them portable to personal computers that were at home.

While reprogram all unix applications by many programmers worldwide, mostly located in geographically distant places, there in findlandia a computer science student named Torvalds scheduled Linuz missing piece to the combined efforts of all the programs involved the project made sense. The core was then scheduled and joined all the pieces of software unrelated to give rise to the first completely free operating system based on UNIX technology which we know as GNU / Linux. Linux, free software and open source is worth noting that these three concepts and leave room for misunderstandings or different interpretations. Linux: The name which has become popular operating system that resulted in the rescheduling of unix by the people's movement and the core GNU Linuz Torvalds programmed so that the correct way to refer to the operating system should be GNU / Linux Free Software: Free Software is any piece of software to be delivered under the terms and conditions of the GNU GP Open Source: The term came into use in a hurry to make free software more attractive to many companies because free speech that seemed to be very ambiguous and contradictory when it comes to buying something that really was free.

However, it is advisable to keep alive the spirit of freedom that free software advocates to be respected the rights of users. Free software is now currently there are still many places in the world where people understand an operating system distributions microsoft operating systems. There are also places where you have heard of the issue, others where the use of free software has been regarded as something ethical, moral and extremely necessary for humankind as is the case of Ecuador, which have been linked not only with the movement of free software but also has been established by Decree # 1014 of April 10, 2008 as public policy for the entities of the central government using free software. Venezuela, Brazil, autonomous communities in Spain and Extremadura also very actively involved in the free software movement USOD both the tools in educational settings such as community development and improvement of free software tools for public use and private sectors.

Currently there any users who have browsed the internet without having to do with free software to some extent because it is both the rise of the use of free software at the enterprise level that the vast majority of websites are programmed with the php language a language which is released under the GNU GPL and running on an Apache web server that has become the right choice for anyone looking for an agile and dynamic server always accequible and very short reset periods, also a GNU GPL tool. Linux / GNU is in part due to its portability the system of choice to install routers, cell phones and computers with opsolétos hardware on which it is no longer possible to run modern software. The modular architecture of Linux makes the system fit the hardware of the machine by turning off unnecessary services allowing system boot process optimization and maximum performance. The Future of Free Software in Brazil's presidential election were performed and used free software system that had the votes to allow inspectors from all political parties to inspect the software code to eliminate any fraudulent practices.

I wonder how many electoral fraud have occurred because code handling in all those countries that use a proprietary system which only those who programmed it can see and / or modificarlo.Es urgent that the use of free software have spread to many more opotunidad for children and adults in many underdeveloped countries can not afford to buy expensive software licenses which will never understand its operation because the code is revealed.

Andres Sanchez Hispanic Micro SMEs