Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1.8 Ethical, Legal, Cultural
and environmental
concerns.
- Open Source
- allows users access to the code to edit/change themselves.
- usually free
- Benefits: can
edit/customise freely, a
strong social support
forum, usually free,
good for companies,
allows collaborations
- Disadvantages: relies on
support networks of other
users, to edit codes you need
expert knowledge,
de-bugging is hard, may need
to buy in external suppor
- proprietary software
- lisenced software
- costs money
- produced by
"professional
company"
- many features built into one program
- Benefits: provides free
customer support, meets
professional standards,
always someone to go back
if you have problems, likely
to be more tailored to
market needs, may be
broader.
- Disadvantages: costs may be
significant, limited to
expansion by only what is
available, reliant on one
company, may not fully meet
the needs of a customer.
- Data Protection Act (1998)
- it covers what can be collected, how long it can be kept for, steps to
keep it up to date, sending and using the data, who can see that data
- PEOPLE WHO COLLECT PERSONAL DATA NEED
TO REGISTER WITH THE INFORMATION
COMMISSIONER.
- Computer Misuse Act
- Makes it illegal for computers to access computer systems
without proper authorisation
- access computer systems with the intent to commit a criminal offence
- alter data without permission (viruses, physical deletion etc.)
- Copyright Designs and Patents Act
- Protects peoples
written,dramatic,musical,film
broadcasts property
- Makes it an offence to copy or
distribute other peoples
intellectual property without
permission
- Creative Commons License
- Allows people with protected work to allow free
distribution of the work
- It may be a musician who wants to do
this to allow remixing of their songs
- It may be an author who wants other people to edit and improve their book
- Purpose of the kernel in an operating system.
- Takes care of low-level hardware operations
- connects applications to the hardware.