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Introduction of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS)

The term Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS) has evolved from two terminologies: Free/Libre Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) (Brock et al. , 2009). The difference between these two kinds of software is that Free Software focuses on moral and ethical issues and stresses on the user rights toward a software whereas the Open Source goes for a corporate approach (Tong, 2004; Brock et al. , 2009). F/LOSS is licensed differently than existing proprietary software license and gives the users freedom under certain conditions so that everyone could enjoy those rights and freedom as well (Brock et al. , 2009). F/LOSS is developed and nurtured by the community of hackers all over the world (Subramanyam and Xia, 2008; Hauge a t al. , 2010 ) . ‘Instead of viewing this community as a threat, high-tech companies like IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Sun Microsystems have come to rely upon it, selling software applications and services built to ride atop the ever-growing free software i...

To remove Vista Smart Security from your system

It gets into your system with the help of Trojans , which is an antispyware program. It detects infection (well when I looked at it, it seemed fake to me) and for removing them, it ask you to purchase the full licensed version (basically a scam). It begins running everytime you boot the system and you cannot remove it from the add/remove program. Well at least in mine, It didn’t appear there. It’s really irritating as everytime you are doing sometime it interrupts you. Well here is the way how you can remove it (worked for me and I hope it works for you guys too). 1) Open a notepad in your desktop 2) Copy the text below into the notepad Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe] [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\secfile] [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\secfile] [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command] @="\"%1\" %*" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe] @="exefile" ...