COMPILER DESIGN

ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPILER DESIGN

CODE GENERATION FOR OBJECT ORIENTED LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is open source?
A
Open source is a reference book.
B
Open source means that you have to pay for a video game’s cheat sheet.
C
Software that is created forfree use by everyone
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -24. Software that is free to everyone is known as: A. freeware.

Detailed explanation-2: -Firefox-a Web browser that competes with Internet Explorer. OpenOffice-a competitor to Microsoft Office. Gimp-a graphic tool with features found in Photoshop. Alfresco-collaboration software that competes with Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC’s Documentum.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prime examples of open-source products are the Apache HTTP Server, the e-commerce platform osCommerce, internet browsers Mozilla Firefox and Chromium (the project where the vast majority of development of the freeware Google Chrome is done) and the full office suite LibreOffice.

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