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A look at the economics of open source
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 47 ,  Issue 2  (February 2004) table of contents
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COLUMN: Practical programmer table of contents
Pages: 25 - 27  
Year of Publication: 2004
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Robert L. Glass  Software Practitioner newsletter & Journal of Systems and Software
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Is open source the future of the software field or a passing fad?


REFERENCES

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1
Pavlicek, R. Buggy whips for India. InfoWorld (Nov. 25, 2002).
 
2
Eric S. Raymond, The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2001

CITED BY  3
Jingyue Li , Reidar Conradi , Odd Petter N. Slyngstad , Christian Bunse , Marco Torchiano , Maurizio Morisio, An empirical study on decision making in off-the-shelf component-based development, Proceeding of the 28th international conference on Software engineering, May 20-28, 2006, Shanghai, China
Jaap-Henk Hoepman , Bart Jacobs, Increased security through open source, Communications of the ACM, v.50 n.1, p.79-83, January 2007
Guido Schryen , Rouven Kadura, Open source vs. closed source software: towards measuring security, Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing, March 08-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.0 General

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.3 Organizational Impacts
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.1 Project and People Management


REVIEW

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This Web article is an interview with Thomas Kalil, who is currently the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). From 1992 to 2000, Kalil was a science and technology   more...

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