In recent years, open source software - more properly, free and open
source software - has emerged as one popular solution to the so-called
"software crisis". Advocates regard F/OSS as an agile, practice-led
initiative that addresses three key issues namely cost, time scale
and quality. F/OSS products are usually freely available for public
download. The collaborative, parallel efforts of globally distributed
developers allow many F/OSS products to be developed much more quickly
than conventional software. Many F/OSS offerings are recognized
for their high standards of reliability, efficiency, and robustness;
products such as GNU/Linux, Apache, and Bind have become "category
killers" stifling the incentive to develop any competing products.
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%1 fitzgerald04
%A Fitzgerald, B.
%D 2004
%J Computer
%K open-source forking
%N 7
%P 92--94
%T A critical look at open source
%U http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1310249
%V 37
%X In recent years, open source software - more properly, free and open
source software - has emerged as one popular solution to the so-called
"software crisis". Advocates regard F/OSS as an agile, practice-led
initiative that addresses three key issues namely cost, time scale
and quality. F/OSS products are usually freely available for public
download. The collaborative, parallel efforts of globally distributed
developers allow many F/OSS products to be developed much more quickly
than conventional software. Many F/OSS offerings are recognized
for their high standards of reliability, efficiency, and robustness;
products such as GNU/Linux, Apache, and Bind have become "category
killers" stifling the incentive to develop any competing products.
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abstract = {In recent years, open source software - more properly, free and open
source software - has emerged as one popular solution to the so-called
"software crisis". Advocates regard F/OSS as an agile, practice-led
initiative that addresses three key issues namely cost, time scale
and quality. F/OSS products are usually freely available for public
download. The collaborative, parallel efforts of globally distributed
developers allow many F/OSS products to be developed much more quickly
than conventional software. Many F/OSS offerings are recognized
for their high standards of reliability, efficiency, and robustness;
products such as GNU/Linux, Apache, and Bind have become "category
killers" stifling the incentive to develop any competing products.},
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pages = {92--94},
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timestamp = {2006-09-18T06:26:07.000+0200},
title = {A critical look at open source},
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volume = 37,
year = 2004
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