Class XII IP Open Source Concepts Assignment

OPEN SOURCE CONCEPTS

TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
1. Expand the terms: OSI, FLOSS, FSF, GNU, GPL, W3C, and OSS. 2. Define the following(a) Freeware (b) Shareware. (c) FLOSS (d) LAMP 3. What for are these software used? (a) Linux (b) Mozilla Firefox (c) PHP (d) Python (e) Apache (f) MySQL. 4. What is openoffice.org? 5. What is a standard? Name two categories of standards. 6. Which of the following are open standards? .orgg .DOC .SVG .TTF .JPEG 7. What is a font? What is OTF? 8. Define: (a) ODF (b) Ogg Vorbis (c) TTF (d) OTF 9. What is Unicode? What is ISCII? 10. What are following ODF file extensions meant for? (a) odt (b) ods (c) odp (d) odg (e) odb.

TYPE B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. Compare the followings(a) Free Software & Open source software (b) OSS & FLOSS (c) Proprietary software & free software (d) Freeware &Shareware (c) Freeware & Free software. (d) TTF & OTF (e) Static & dynamic fonts 2. Write short notes on: (a) GNU (b) Linux (c) Mozilla (d) Apache (e) PostgreSQL (f) Python (g) PHP (h) Tomcat 3. What characteristics make a standard an open standard? Discuss some advantages of open standard over Proprietary standard. 4. Name & discuss briefly some common open standard formats. 5. How phonetic text entry is different from key map based text entry?