Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. Software can be defined broadly to include design documents, specifications...
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open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or...
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Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. A practitioner, called a software engineer, applies the engineering design process...
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Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...
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Programmer (redirect from Software developers)
with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer are used for jobs that require a programmer. Generally...
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An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than...
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The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists...
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A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...
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Software categories are groups of software. They allow software to be understood in terms of those categories, instead of the particularities of each...
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Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users...
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