Open source as a foundation for systems research

  • Authors:
  • Muli Ben-Yehuda;Eric Van Hensbergen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

You are a systems researcher at a corporate research lab. The corporation you work for deals with both proprietary and open source software. You have an exciting new idea that will undoubtedly revolutionize the field, but first you need to build a working system to validate it. Before embarking on your exploratory research project, you must decide: Do you start from scratch, or do you build upon a mature system? And if the latter---should the system be proprietary or open source?