Essay topic With reference to written opinion, technical details, and your own personal opinion, write a short essay on the question: Most universities worldwide employ open-source software in both their teaching and the operations of their campus-wide information services, often citing the financial benefits of doing so. However, this is often in contrast to their students' past experiences and future careers, often dominated by the use of proprietary software. What important ideas and approaches does the teaching of open-source software expose to students, and how are these likely to be employed in a student's future computing-focused career? Do you believe that universities have a moral obligation to promote the use of open-source software within the computing industry? The essay contributes 30% towards your final mark in CITS4407 this semester, and is to be completed as individual work. The deadline for this assignment is 12noon Friday 12th May. Your essay should be approximately 1500-2000 words (excluding references). Please report the number of words in a footnote on the first page. Use 1.5 line spacing (in MS Word: Format ? Paragraph ? Line Spacing). Margins should be at least 2cm. Your essay should not have a coverpage. Use either the Harvard Style or the IEEE Citation Style for your references. Please understand that if you refer to someone else's work you will normally paraphrase their remarks and include a citation (in Harvard format). If you use the authors' exact words that is a quotation, so should be surrounded by quotation marks and include a ci- tation. Cutting and pasting without quotation marks, and particularly without a citation, is plagiarism. Paraphrasing involves reading something, understanding it (which may involve reading background documents) and then summarising the main points in your own words. Minor syntactic transformations on the starting text is not paraphrasing. If you are unsure of the difference I suggest you go to: http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/learning/studysmarter/getsmart/plagiarism In particular, follow the link to the FAQs and the link to the examples of what not to do. Submit your essay as a single file, either a Microsoft Word document or a PDF file, using cssubmit. As Chris McDonald will be away from UWA from Wednesday 3rd May, please ensure that you've resolved any confusion about the essay topic before then. Good luck.