Week 7 summary.

Why not better the things we have to make life easier? Amen, sister! Creative Commons is an online sharing community that started in 2002, that has changed the rules of copyright. It allows people, the creators of culture, to refine the rules of copyright and allows more people to share creations. Creative commons promotes a sharing culture where creators make choices on who has access and who can control or alter what they make. Alleluia! It gives copyright more options. Propriety is what Creative Commons challenge. A confidential, closed source is not welcome the sharing community; it is rebelled against. FLOSS – Free Libre Open Source Software also defies propriety. Sources codes are like recipes for computer programmes. It is written in a computer language called ruby. Over the years Sources became commodities in businesses like Microsoft and Apple, FLOSS challenges close sources and promotes the sharing, contributing and reusing of source codes. In FLOSS one may, study, share, improve and or run a programme without and limitations. Personally, I didn’t know about FLOSS or Creative Commons until this lecture. I think they provide a fantastic opportunity to enjoy new and improved technology. This week I challenged myself not to use the Microsoft owned, Internet Explorer. At home, I have the outdate version Internet Explorer 6.0. It pretty basic without tab options or anything fancy like that. I started using Mozilla Firefox 3.0 as an alternative and consequently, I’ve converted. It gave me the luxury of live bookmarking and giving the book marks themes. With the tabs, it’s as if the clutter on the computer has bee cleaned. Using the internet is so much easier. Praise the Lord!