Software piracy
07 March 2008

When you purchase a legal copy of a software, you do not actually own it. You have merely purchased the licence and the right to use the software programme’s applications on one computer unit.

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What is open source software?
07 March 2008

Open source software refers to a software programme that is made available to the general public, who are free to modify it because the source code (the way the programme is written) is visible to all.

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Software 101
07 March 2008

Software can be likened to the fuel of the computer. It is essentially a string of zeros and ones, known as a binary code, which instructs the computer, through a machine language, what to do.

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The windows operating system
23 February 2008

An operating system is a program that “talks” to the computer hardware, so that the hardware (for example, the processor) can carry out our instructions. Windows is the main operating system that is used on PCs today.

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