What is the basic idea behind open source software?

What will be an ideal response?


When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, adapt it, and fix bugs in it, often at astonishing speeds compared with the slow pace of conventional software development.

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Create a class named Appointment that contains instance variables startTime, endTime, dayOfWeek (valid values are Sunday through Saturday), and a date which consists of a month, day and year. All times should be in military time, therefore it is appropriate to use integers to represent the time. Create the appropriate accessor and mutator methods.

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A blue rectangular outline appears around the grouped object when it is selected.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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In Windows 10, how many threads per process must a sustained processor queue be under to be considered normal?

A. 12 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25

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A directory within a directory is called a ________ directory

A) root B) limb C) nark D) sub

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