Groupware
Software allowing a group of users to work collaboratively on a project without necessarily being met.
Synonym: groupware
Note: It is also noted in the literature the term groupware work.
English: groupware.
Free Software
For the purposes of Free Software FoundationA Software is free unless the accompanying license grants the user the following freedoms:
Freedom of execution, without restriction weather, To be ground, person, etc.. ;
Freedom to study how the program works and adapt to its needs;
Freedom to redistribute copies;
Freedom to improve and disseminate improvements.
The freedoms 2 and 4 assume the availability of source code.
Public Software
Software paid in the public domain because of its renunciation of author's economic rights.
English: freeware.
Moore's Law
Co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore had stated in 1965 that the number of transistors per circuit of the same size will double, at constant prices, annually. He subsequently rectified by bringing to eighteen months the doubling rate. He deduced that the power of computers would grow exponentially, and this for years. He was right. His law, based on empirical observation has been verified until now. However, he said in 1997 that the growth performance of the chip would run at around 2017 to a physical limit: the size atoms. Until then, our computers are about 1 500 times more powerful than today!
Application
A PC purchased in 2003 or at the time five times cheaper, ten times lighter, a hundred times more powerful and much more ergonomic than our first computer, there's no doubt. But there is a corollary to Moore's Law, which vendors Hardware never talk about it is that every computer becomes obsolete ... later than the day of his unpacking. And also, it adds more functionality to a computer, the greater the likelihood of " Bugs ».
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