APPLICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE
WHAT IS COMPUTER SOFTWARE
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Software application is sold to users. As the name suggests, it isintended to meet commercial needs
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) recommends that all freesoftware be copylefted and released under General Public License
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The only difference between a freeware and sharewareapplication is that the shareware is usually provided on a trial basis.
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Open source licensing ensures that free and legalredistribution of the software is possible.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Commercial software is any software or program that is designed and developed for licensing or sale to end users or that serves a commercial purpose. Commercial software was once considered to be proprietary software, but now a number of free and open-source software applications are licensed or sold to end users.
Detailed explanation-2: -The other names for commercial software are proprietary software or payware.
Detailed explanation-3: -For commercial software the users need to spend moderate to expensive cost. It is available under high licensing cost. It depends on its software sale / product licensing as its main source of fund. Some examples of commercial software are Windows Operating System, MS Office, SAP, Oracle, Adobe Photoshop.
Detailed explanation-4: -Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available by the developer to everybody to study, change, modify, enhance and distribute. On the other hand, commercial software has source code that only the person, team, or organization that created it can edit, inspect, change and enhance it.