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1- critical thinking Open Source Software

Chapter 5 provides a brief description of open source software, but open source technology is a rapidly growing phenomenon. Many programmers and users are passionate about open source software and believe that all software programs (and source code) should be freely available. For this assignment, address the following items:

Compare and contrast the practicality for all software to be distributed in this manner.

Discuss the effects on commercial software and commercial developers if all software were to become open source.

Include your opinions on whether or not innovation would be enhanced or restricted if there was no financial incentive to create software.

2- Disscussion board 

During this module, you explored topics relating to the development and implementation of a security, education, training and awareness (SETA) program within an organization. Based on your understanding of SETA programs and how they relate to the secure software development process discuss the following: 

Describe what you feel are best practices for implementing an AppSec SETA program.

  • Provide support for those choices using sources from your textbook or the Saudi Digital Library to support your viewpoint.
  • In preparing your response, include at least one source from professional or academic literature—such as articles from peer-reviewed journals and relevant textbooks. For this course, Wikipedia is not considered an academic or professional reference. Also, proofread and spell check your responses. All sources should be formatted using APA 7th guidelines.
  • 3- Disscussion board 

Do you believe that software manufacturers should be tolerant of the practice of software piracy in third-world countries to allow these countries an opportunity to move more quickly into the information age?  Why or why not?  What would the benefits and disadvantages of this be?Support your discussion with at least two scholarly references.