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Free Open Source Software That Could Make You Rich

Hello Everyone, I will love to ask you this important question What does the richest man on earth does for a living? He sells software for a living. Today I will be sharing with you software licensed under the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that could make you some money perhaps make you rich. This software are gives you the freedom to copy, modify, and distribute it (with friends and families), but not sell or claim ownership of it. You might be thinking at this point how would you make money from a software that is initially freely available and cannot be sold? This where the business model of Open Source Software comes to play, at least there are four basic ways of making money with open source software namely: Support: By offering paid support for software licensed under open source could make you tons of money, I once worked with a firm who make a living providing support for Moodle installation and management in a school in UK, the school decided to run online course...

Business of Free and Open Software (FOSS)

Introducing Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) These are software that gives you the liberty to use, copy, study, modify, and distribute it in any way and any form. Importantly the source code is made available for anyone to view and modify to and make it better, in contrast to proprietary software, where the underlying source code is usually hidden from the users. Benefits of FOSS The benefits of using FOSS can include decreasing software costs, increasing security and stability (especially in regard to malware), protecting privacy, and giving users more control over their own hardware. Free, open-source operating systems such as Linux and descendants of BSD are widely utilized today, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones (e.g. Android), and other devices. Free software licenses and open-source licenses are used by many software packages. ( Wikipedia ) Business of FOSS Its unbelievable that the underlying concept of FOSS is a business Model, you mig...

Introduction to Linux Terminal

If you really want to learn about computer hacking you have got to understand how to use the Linux, and if you really want to master the Linux environment you have got to master the command line system which is known as the terminal in the Linux world. I guess some one is sweating out there!!! Please do not panic the terminal is very simple to use, You must have been wondering why will I ever want to use the terminal? well in my simple opinion: there are some hacking tools that will not run in a GUI environment but will only run in the command line, another reason is that people see you as a cool nerd when they see you tinkering on the terminal, and the most important of all is that the terminal is a very important environment to work with. Enough of eulogizing the terminal and lets get down to the business of the day which is a little introduction to the terminal commands. 1. Ls I use this tool everyday and it is a workhorse. It is great for listing directory contents and che...

Google Hacking

This information is for educational purpose only and I cannot be held responsible if it is used for other reasons. Warning: This information contain in this document might be dangerous for you if not used appropriately, there are some information not meant for public use that the search engine might return as a result for you, e.g. searching for free musical files on the internet which are might not be free in the real sense but might be kept on the server by a careless system administrator and this can be a violation of international law. So I will not be responsible for any misuse of the information. Google is by far the most used search engine on the internet, based on statistic. Its popularity is due not only to excellent search effectiveness, but also extensive querying capabilities. However don’t forget that the Internet is a highly dynamic medium, so the results presented by Google are not always up-to-date – some search results might be out of date, while other relevant r...