What Is Open Source

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Multiple Choice

What is open source?

• A) Any proprietary software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder.
• B) Any software whose source code is made available free for any third party to review and modify.
• C) Contains instructions written by a programmer specifying the actions to be performed by computer software.
• D) Nonproprietary hardware and software based on publicly known standards that allow third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate.

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Definitions:

Social Situation

The environmental and contextual setting in which interpersonal interactions occur, influenced by social norms and roles.

Pleasure Principle

A psychoanalytic concept where human behavior is driven by the desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory of psychology and human behavior which posits that unconscious motives and conflicts shape personality and mental disorders.

Collective Unconscious

According to Jung, a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from people’s ancestral past that is shared with the entire human race.