Open Source Development with CVS
Open Source Development with CVS
Quality assurance under the open source development model
Journal of Systems and Software
Large-scale software integration for spoken language and multimodal dialog systems
Natural Language Engineering
The FreeBSD Project: A Replication Case Study of Open Source Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Investigating quality in large-scale Open Source Software
5-WOSSE Proceedings of the fifth workshop on Open source software engineering
MULTIPLATFORM testbed: an integration platform for multimodal dialog systems
SEALTS '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Software engineering and architecture of language technology systems - Volume 8
Information policies and open source software in developing countries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Empirical study of the effects of open source adoption on software development economics
Journal of Systems and Software
Open source communities in China (Mainland): an overview
OCSC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computing
Legacy job titles in IT: the search for clarity
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
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Although some challenge the value of open source software development, its popularity is undisputed. This overview of open source licensing and development models describes the movement's main principles. Whereas proprietary vendors use a closed-source model to develop their software, release it to the public, and anticipate a profit, the open source movement-- although still profitable-- relies on different practices. Open source projects invite everyone capable of writing code to join in, leading to robust software and diverse business models. However, having multiple participants requires extensive coordination, ranging from standardizing software to offering other benefits. Inexpensive even when packaged and sold by a third-party vendor, open source software frees developers and hardware manufacturers from following a closed-source software vendor's specifications. Open source software has also proven highly reliable as well, thanks to the continuing efforts of the programming community that develops it. Although free software provides unprecedented flexibility, stability, and freedom of choice, various distributions tend to compete and imitate one another. This fragmentation will likely be the most prominent hurdle facing open source software's future.