Question

Describe Android open source software and how it works. Discuss the role this open source software has in management information systems.

Answer 1

Android Open Source Software is a type of software system in which the source code is made available with the license and in such a system the copyright holders provides the right to read, study, modify and distribute the software to anybody and for any specific purpose. Such software has the provision of changes received from multiple sources. As it is a collaborative development of multiple independendent sources, so it generally offers a much wider scope for designing and development than any single company is capable to develop and sustain.

It works on a licensed system.The author contributes code to an open source project in the formof explicit license or implicit license. The users act as co-developers and have access to the source code of the software and thus it works in a collaborative way.

Open Source Software is development software which can be used if the system is in developmental phase. It has much wider application in various companies as it offers a software with:

Low cost

Better quality

Security

No vendor lock in