Free and Open Source Software and Other Market Failures.

The article discusses what the author refers to as the market failure of free and open source software (FOSS) as of 2024, and it mentions how FOSS represents freedom. The history of UNIX computing is addressed, along with issues involving computer source code, the International Business Machines Cor...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 67; no. 8; pp. 106 - 109
Main Author: Kamp, Poul-Henning
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2024
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