Development on Application of open source software to Railway Information System
Yongzhong Liu · Railway Computer Application · 2004
Expensive commercial software (operating system, database management system, server software, etc.) developedby foreign country software company was usually used in Railway Information System, its source code was not opened topublic, security leakes and hidden were existed, much hidden trouble was brought to the security of Railway InformationSystem. The open source software was very cheap and even free of charge, its source code was opened to public, the leak andhidden security trouble could be easily found and be corrected in time. The source code of open source software could be usedto develop those software which the knowledge property right could be owned by us, that had great meanings to theinformation system security of our countrys key departments such as railway. The basic characteristics, categories andlicense of open source software and its application in Railway Information System were introduced in this paper.