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CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Question 25 of 177

Societal Impacts — Question 12

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Question 12(i)

Compare and Contrast : Free software and Open source software.

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Free software is the software which is free of cost, which can be copied, modified and redistributed as well and whose source code is available. No charges are payable for free software.

Open source software, on the other hand, is the software, whose source code is available and which can be copied, modified and redistributed as well. There may or may not be charges payable for open source software.