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Free Kindle for PC
Amazon has announced a free Kindle for PC application in one more move, which will revolutionize the way we consume books. Now you do not need to purchase The Kindle tablet in order to download and read Kindle books.
By offering the free kindle application Amazon has, significantly, lowered the bar for the digital books consumer. It hopes to attract many new Kindle users, who will in turn purchase books from the 400,000 titles already available for the Kindle application.
Is that the start of the end of the printed book? Probably not, but it is certainly an important step in revolutionizing the press industry.
Amazon announced free Kindle for PC application in one more which will revolutionize the way we consume books. Now you do not need to purchase The Kindle tablet.
By offering the free kindle application Amazon has lowered the bar for digital books cosumer significantly. It hopes hopes to attract many new Kindle users, and it will probably will succeed, who will in turn purchase books from the 400,000 titles already available for the Kindle application.
Is that the start of the end of the printed book? Probably not, but it is certainly an important mark in revolutionizing the press industry.
Introduction to Open Source (Part 3)
In part 1 and part 2 of this article I have introduced the open source concept, and discussed the reason software developers are adopting it. In the third and final part, below, we will discuss the risks of distributing the source code together with the software itself, the pros and cons of open source from the perspective of the end user, as well as, the reasons why IT giants are strategically getting involved in open source development.
Introduction to Open Source (Part 2)
In the first part of this article I have introduced the open source concept. In the second part, hereunder, we will further discuss the open source idea, its definitions and principals.
Introduction to Open Source (Part 1)
Introduction
In recent years, the open source movement has established a respectful position in the software industry. Many enterprises have embraced open source platform and applications and some of the software giants has adopted open source strategically: IBM, Novell, Oracle and even Google, to name a few.
Freeware vs. Free Software
There is some confusion in regards to the relation between freeware and free software. Some claim freeware is not free software. Is there or isn’t there a difference between the two.
