You are taking the "Open Source/Free Software History" quiz. Answer the questions you see in the pages and then hit "Submit" to see which questions you got right or wrong. You may share your results with your friends afterwords about the quiz you just took or challenge them to score better than you! By the way, don't forget to support us on Patreon. We can publish more of these nice quizzes if more people join the cause. 1. Software In the 1950s generally started as: A movement Part of hardware purchases Separately from the hardware A Government program 2. "Free software" is software that: Comes with no cost Respects users' freedom Is made to fight exclusively against authoritarianism Comes with free hardware 3. The GNU Project was started: To sell software to companies To sell hardware To use computers using only free software As a Government program 4. The GNU Project was started by: Bill Gates Steve Jobs Linus Torvalds Richard Stallman 5. GNU stands for: GNU's not Unix! General Network University Global Network Users GNU Network Utilities 6. GNU was announced in the year: 1981 1983 1984 1993 7. The GNU General Public License (GPL) guarantees: That software cannot be sold freedom to run but not modify software protection against unlawful sharing of software freedom to run, study, share, and modify software 8. A copyright license that allows the source code to be used, modified and/or shared is called: A free-source license. A source-code license. An open-software license. An open-source license. 9. Open source software: Cannot be sold Can be sold Must be written in a specific programming language Can only be made by hackers and communities and not corporations 10. The most popular open-source operating system is: GNU/Linux Windows FreeBSD Unix 1 out of 2 You have finished your quiz. Either go back to review your answers or hit "Submit" below to get your results! Time is Up! Time's up
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