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                Video Games Preservation Essay (for Writing Composition II during the Fall 2020 semester at Hudson County Community College)
              
          
    Video Games Preservation
While it is still young, the video game industry is rich with history. There are many efforts underway that seek to preserve the industry’s history. Efforts to preserve video games include a community project known as “BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint” that has been preserving web games, archival work performed by the Internet Archive, the Video Game History Foundation’s Video Game Source Project, and MAME, a hardware emulation framework. Despite the existence of these projects, difficulties persist in preserving video games.
BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint was started in January of 2018 after Adobe had announced that Adobe Flash would no longer be supported at the end of 2020 (Zweizen). Adobe worked on a roadmap collaborating with major technology partners to discontinue Flash. Adobe will stop providing security updates for and will no longer distribute Flash on December 31st, 2020 (Adobe.com). Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google will be removing support for Flash from their web browsers by the end of 2

  
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                Unix/Linux Network Admin Essay (Fall 2013 Semester at Bergen Community College)
              
          
    Proprietary Software’s Competition from Open Source Software
Proprietary software, or closed source software, is facing competition from open source software in numerous markets. The Open Source Initiative dictates ten criteria that open source software must meet, one of which being that the source code must be included with the program. Licenses that adhere to the Open Source Initiative’s Open Source Definition allow for free distribution and modification of open source software. One prominent open source license is the GNU General Public License (GPL.) The GNU GPL outlines the central philosophies of free software.
Some reasons that people or companies choose open source software over proprietary software include security, overall cost, and the ability for anyone to improve on the software. With source code freely available, any person can find and report or possibly even fix security vulnerabilities, whereas developers of proprietary software must address any security vulnerabilities. The total cost of o