SIGMOD '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Programming with GNU software
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Understanding open source software development
Understanding open source software development
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softw
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softw
Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development
Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development
Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language
Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Open Source GIS: A Grass GIS Approach
Open Source GIS: A Grass GIS Approach
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
Information technology in Nigerian banks: the limits of expectations
Information Technology for Development
A Critical Look at Open Source
Computer
Characterizing complex product architectures: Regular Paper
Systems Engineering
The Success of Open Source
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Many authors propose that open source software (OSS) is a good strategy to bring information and communication technologies to developing countries. Nevertheless, the use of OSS needs to be more than just adopting Linux as the standard for operating systems. Adoption of OSS is not only a choice of software, but also a means of acquiring knowledge. Developing countries have to use OSS as a way to gain knowledge about the technology itself and as a way of creating technology products that fit their specific needs. In this article, the authors introduce a model of OSS based on its essential characteristics to understand how developing countries may use OSS to achieve their development goals. The authors argue that there are two defining properties of any open source software. The first property is the potential for shared conceptualization and the second is the potential for modularity. By assessing how each OSS project satisfies these two conditions, a taxonomy is built for open source projects. This taxonomy will help the development of more sensible policies to promote the use of open source in developing countries. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.