Linux is distributed under GNU GPL. Why is this important? It prevents unknowledgeable users from downloading programs they don't know how to operate.

It provides protection for the developers who created Linux.

It ensures that only Torvalds can profit from the sale of Linux.

It states that anyone can copy, modify, and share the program as long as the changes are made public.

Microsoft introduced active directory with windows 2000. in server 2012, it is in now version 4. what are some new features in the new ad that were not present in windows 2000 ad?

It is vital to research each of the services you plan to disable before implementing any change, especially on critical machines such as the: a. servers in the test environment. b. domain controller and other infrastructure servers. c. desktops that have previously been attacked. d. desktops used by upper-level management.

Assume the existence of a bankaccount class. define a derived class, savingsaccount that contains two instance variables: the first a double, named interestrate, and the second an integer named interesttype. the value of the interesttype variable can be 1 for simple interest and 2 for compound interest. there is also a constructor that accepts two parameters: a double that is used to initialize the interestrate variable, and a string that you may assume will contain either "simple", or "compound", and which should be used to initialize the interesttype variable appropriately. there should also be a pair of functions getinterestrate and getinteresttype that return the values of the corresponding data members (as double and int respectively).