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Discusses the growing number of projects which use an `open-source' structure. The stock price of Red Hat, a company which supplies Linux's open-source operating system software; History of open-source projects, which include the Oxford English Dictionary; How open-source allows volunteers to contr...

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Publicado en:	Economist Vol. 353; no. 8148; pp. 66 - 67
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Economist Newspaper Limited 12/4/1999
Materias:	Volunteer service Open source software Volunteers Computer operating systems
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost

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Sumario:	Discusses the growing number of projects which use an `open-source' structure. The stock price of Red Hat, a company which supplies Linux's open-source operating system software; History of open-source projects, which include the Oxford English Dictionary; How open-source allows volunteers to contribute to the development of a project; Use of open-sourcing on web sites like Slashdot.org and Open Directory; Possible future directions for open-source project development.