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diff --git a/writeup/writeup.tex b/writeup/writeup.tex index 3ebccca..e35e4fb 100644 --- a/writeup/writeup.tex +++ b/writeup/writeup.tex @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ This document is written using the {\LaTeX} text compiler. The compiler has set up clickable links, clickable references and a clickable table of contents, so please use these to your advantage. The Tex source and Bib Tex bibliography is available for all at -\url{https://github.com/standenboy/epq/}. +\url{https://github.com/standenboy/epq/} under the MIT/X document license. \tableofcontents \newpage @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ it makes sense to provide a brief overview for those who don't know what specifi be covered further in the next section. \item[Open Source] This term refers to a piece of software, where the original code for it is publicly available. This too will be covered further in the next section. - \item[FOSS] An acronym for "Free and Open Source Software". + \item[FOSS] An acronym for "\textbf{F}ree and \textbf{O}pen \textbf{S}ource \textbf{S}oftware". \end{description} \section{What is Free Software?} @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The term Free Software was first coined by Richard Stallman in 1983\cite{GNUproj before this, examples of Free Software (and the disapproval of Proprietary Software), were already starting to show. -One of the earliest examples of the disapproval of Non-free Software, was the response to Microsoft's +One of the earliest examples of the disapproval of Non-Free Software, was the response to Microsoft's \textit{An open letter to hobbyists}, which was written by Bill Gates in 1976. This letter detailed that people had been stealing from Microsoft, as many people had brought hardware through them, but far fewer people had brought required software for said hardware. The fact this was happening @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ to be a full recreation of AT\&T's Unix operating system from the ground up as F The idea was to allow anyone access to a Unix like machine without paying AT\&T's expensive license fees, and allow any user to view it, redistribute or edit; it was to be the first fully free operating system. The early development of GNU was relatively slow, and it was not a completely free -system for many years, as some core parts of the operating system were missing, meaning non-free +system for many years, as some core parts of the operating system were missing, meaning Non-Free alternatives had to be used. However this would later change in 1991, when final additions would be created. @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Without going into too much detail, this is done by merging all contributions in by comparing line numbers in differing versions, this is a fully automated process, managed by your version control system. This pattern of development is liked amongst programmers as it allows many to submit code all at once, which is invaluable if your project has many developers. This method -is also commonly used in Non-free Software, to manage large development teams\cite{NONFREEvcs}. +is also commonly used in Non-Free Software, to manage large development teams\cite{NONFREEvcs}. \section{Comparing Free Software to its Proprietary counterparts} As previously mentioned there are many different examples of Free Software, often made to be an @@ -187,9 +187,9 @@ of software, that are used by the majority of computer users. \subsection{Programming IDE's} \textit{An \textbf{IDE} is an \textbf{I}ntegrated \textbf{D}evelopment \textbf{E}nvironment} -The main IDE's used by developers are Free Software, but there are a few Non-free ones that are used. +The main IDE's used by developers are Free Software, but there are a few Non-Free ones that are used. To compare text editors, one can look at \textit{Vs Code} as an example of open software, with 73\% of -developers claiming to have used it at some point, and \textit{IntelliJ} , as an example of Non-free +developers claiming to have used it at some point, and \textit{IntelliJ}, as an example of Non-Free software, with 26\% of developers claiming to have used it at some point\cite{IDEusage}. These tools are both commonly used personally and professionally, and are of a similar size, making them @@ -241,8 +241,8 @@ almost identical tools. As the tools are so similar one will find it's not worth comparing them, in this way we can say that there is no difference, they are both mature, well used, effective suites of software, they are equal. This is something many people struggle to -see sometimes as they have been using one piece of Non-free software for so long, they don't want to move to anything else. -This has negative effects on the users, many Non-free tools are effected by cyber attacks, and long lasting bugs, that could +see sometimes as they have been using one piece of Non-Free software for so long, they don't want to move to anything else. +This has negative effects on the users, many Non-Free tools are effected by cyber attacks, and long lasting bugs, that could be fixed by switching to Free Software alternatives, which are now at an equal state to the alternative. \subsection{General conclusions} |