The Business of OPEN SOURCE.
The article focuses on the open source software (OSS) industry. It mentions that there is an abundance of new and innovative products emerging from the OSS community because of the zero-licensing structure of most open source projects. After enumerating the five models underlying the software develo...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 41 - 47 |
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