Reusing Open-Source Software and Practices: The Impact of Open-Source on Commercial Vendors

Authors:
Alan W. Brown;Grady Booch
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ICSR-7 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools
Year:
2002

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Abstract

One of the most intriguing ways that commercial developers of software can become more efficient is to reuse not only software but also best practices from the open-source movement. The open-source movement encompasses a wide collection of ideas, knowledge, techniques, and solutions. Commercial software vendors have an opportunity to both learn from the open-source community, as well as leverage that knowledge for the benefit of its commercial clients. This paper looks at a number of the characteristics of the open-source movement, offers a categorization of open-source dimensions, and provides an analysis of the opportunities available to commercial software vendors when applying the lessons from the open-source movement.