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:

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Hydrological Cycle

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Biogeochemical Cycle

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