Developers Post Their Programs on a Public Site and a Community

question 36

Multiple Choice

Developers post their programs on a public site and a community of volunteers is free to tinker with them,develop other applications using the code,and then give their changes away for free.This is also known as which of the following?

• A)An activity stream.
• B)The backchannel.
• C)An internal social network.
• D)The open source model.
• E)A niche market.

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Definitions:

Overhead Allocation

The process of distributing overhead costs, such as rent and utilities, to different departments or products based on a certain criteria or formula.

Cost-Based Pricing

A pricing strategy where the selling price of a product or service is determined by adding a markup to its total cost of production or acquisition.

Return on Investment

A measure of the profitability and efficiency of an investment, calculated by dividing the net profit from the investment by its original cost.

Average Assets

The mean value of a company’s assets over a given time frame, often used in financial analysis to assess asset utilization efficiency.