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Computers are like a planet. The planet has the structure of planets such as valleys, mountains, rivers, we call it as a hardware composition. Call it the planet is Earth, with the CPU as the core of earth. And of course the OS (Operating System) as a house, the house we occupy. The house where we want to watch television or play or work and so on.

Many OS as we know, such as Unix, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and others. All have their respective advantages in their fields, all have their weaknesses in their field. As a programmer of course we have to know the position in which we put ourselves. For example we are a programmer OS/400 is impossible for us to work on the windows. Or we are a web programmer, such as PHP or ASP, we worked on the Mac OS. Indeed today many emulators that we can get, but the emulator also requires a lot of improvements here and there. The only best way to run a program or application is in accordance with its OS.

OS one of the fastest growing is linux. Starting from 1991, linux continues to grow from a text-based, has now reached GUI excellent and beautiful. Let us look at how compiz works on desktop Ubuntu users today. Extraordinarily beautiful, compared to linux 10 years ago, I think it would be much different. Especially now with the linux kernel start growing support for hardware-hardware that previously could not run with this operating system. What linux has to offer so much more now than ever. This all could not be separated from the hard work of the programmer who was behind it, and we need to know linux has developed more than one million programmers around the world.

Open source is not always free. Everyone always misinterpreting the open source word with the word free. For the purpose of open source is that together we read the code and develop what is in it, so the software will have a greater ability than the first version of the software. Unlike the freeware, which is the software really free for distribution, or use. Do not forget that behind the open source there are those which spend their time, energy and thoughts, just us as people who use these software at least grateful. Ways grateful there are many ways, among them a donation, or join to develop it.

So if we try to help open source, we mean to participate to reduce illegal software piracy, and we will be proud to use an open source product, because we really participate in it. Perhaps the biggest obstacle is the problem of adaptation to some people who are used to certain software. To move from something they already take for granted is not easy. At first I was also trouble when switching from Microsoft Office to Open Office. I could say, “What food is this?”

“Do not joke, it is a new food that inevitably you have to eat every day!”, I told myself.

Absolutely, this is for the first time was weird. Just like when we are new to computers. This is a box that could explode at any time, I said at that time. But I admit, it gradually disappeared from my mind. I’m no longer afraid of holding a mouse or keyboard boards. Years after “making out” with a creature whose name the computer, finally I could get used to. Not afraid to install the OS, or rummaging through the contents of my computer. A problem which is a change. Can I wear full in open source?

At first I could not. But after slowly passed, by starting to use linux, I also finally able to, not too difficult in fact if our intention initially was to use open source products and leave pirated. And now, for I had no office open office, to programming, a lot of software that is very supportive, and of course, to organize the photos of my kids, very good on all existing ubuntu. Live packages downloaded online or via DVD / CD repository.

Hopefully what I write this, makes you really interested to use the products open source.

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Di dalam dunia software, kita mengenal istilah Shareware, Freeware, dan juga Open Source. Apa sih sebenarnya istilah-istilah itu? Istilah-istilah itu adalah istilah tentang akuisisi pembuat software tersebut terhadap hak ciptanya. Entah itu dipakai ataupun diubah, ataupun dikembangkan. Kita bahas satu-satu.

Shareware, adalah sebuah akuisisi pada sebuah software di mana apabila kita mau memakai software tersebut, maka harus atas seijin yang membuat(dalam hal ini registrasi). Dalam hal ini entah apa yang diinginkan si pembuat maka kita harus mengikuti EULA yang telah ia tetapkan, dengan membayar sesuai dengan harga yang ditawarkan oleh si pembuat.
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