Business and Legal Aspects of Free and Open Source Software Final

So here we are at the end of it all. These were the questions that we were required to answer for the final, so here we go!

1. When does code you create become copyright?
   As soon as it is saved
   
2. If you could wave a magic wand and open source any any piece of proprietary software, what would you choose?
   Microsoft Word
   
3. If the software was open sourced, would it's company remain stable? How would it make money?
   It would probably be able to maintain itself through support
   
4. What do you think the most beneficial thing to learn in class was?
   I learned about trademarking, which was something that I had never really thought about before and didn't really understand at all when looking back at it.
5. Explain some of the motivation a company may have to open source software
   It encourages the community to communicate and help fix some of the issues that the developer may have with their release that they may be unaware of. It also helps to illustrate the trustworthiness of the company by showing what it is doing to the public more than they otherwise might.
6. Are there any changes that you suggest making to the profile template? What parts do you find most interesting or important?
   Honestly I found the Community Architecture and Technology sections to universally be a problem to fill in for my profiles. They are too narrow in focus and would often have no real answer without going outside the original scope of the profile. Rationale is also pretty moot because it has no influence on the the actual information presented, outside maybe showing bias in the individual writers.
7. If there could have spent more time on any topic, which would you have liked to cover in more depth?
   I would have like more about trademarks and licensing since it was only briefly covered.
8. Why are you using *MIT* as the license for your open source project?
   I don't really have an active open project, so that leaves the ones that I did for HFOSS and ADVFOSS, which MIT seemed like the best fit at the time.
9. If you would suggest a video to be watched as part of this course, what would it be?
   Well aside from Hackers, because it is the agreed upon answer, I don't really have any sort of referential material that would be particularly useful for the class as I have very limited voice when it comes to this.