We all know that everyone wants free stuff. After all, people say all the good things in life are free. So why can't we have things for free? At least to unleash our creative side. Did you know that in the period from the 1960s to the 70s software was completely free? Any one could change the instructions in the program, create different things within the program and share it with others who will add and change other characteristics of the program and share it with other people as well. That was until businesses became aware of the capabilities of what this offers and decided to make their own programs and sell them. That is when Creative Commons came about in 2000.
Creative commons allow people to share free or libre, open source software (FLOSS)for people to be creative. While these software are free, they only own some rights, unlike Copyright, who has all rights reserved and Public Domain, who have no rights at all. Open source software include Open Office, Mozilla FireFox, Linux etc... Closed Source software however include Microsoft programs, Internet Explorer and Windows programs. Creative Commons helps break the barriers put in place by copyright and allows users to be creative and share their creativity with others and therefore allows others to become creative. So why can't we get the same thing for free?
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