This weeks lecture was about creative commons. Creative commons is a not for profit organisation that started in 2003, with the idea of having more freely available content, where it serves a public good. They provide free licences and tools for copyright owners to allow other users to share and recycle their material legally. Rather than only being 'all rights reserved', they have built on the term 'some rights reserved' which enables them to share content easily.
The free software I chose to experiment with was Moxilla Firefox. After my computer crashed a few years ago, we had to change our web browser to Moxilla Firefox to keep using the internet. To be honest, I didn't notice much of a difference. The only things I did notice was some websites didn't work properly and at times it seemed to be slower than usual. Other than that it was very similar to use, nothing that you couldn't do with Internet Explorer. After reading into it, I found some interesting differences between Moxilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer was seen as an ongoing security risk, with 90% of hackers using this web browser and it doesn't look like lessening in the future. On the other hand, Moxilla Firefox cannot run some websites and can often be slower than normal and takes up more memory.
After using this software and going to the lecture it made me think how we don't need to rely on the big corporate softwares to do what we need to do online. It really comes down to brands, everyone is familiar with Internet Explorer so why would they use Moxilla Firefox? Overall I didn't have a problem with it, but for security reasons I might consider changing in the future.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/62/Creativecommons-informational-flyer_eng.pdf
http://www.techsupportalert.com/firefox.htm
http://www.downloadfirefoxbrowser.com/
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