Historical Reflecions Will the Future of Software be Open Source?

The article discusses open source software (OSS), exploring the question of whether or not OSS represents the future of computer software going forward from 2008. The author, citing the 1995 book "The Future of Software," indicates that technical experts can extrapolate when trying to predict the fu...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 10; pp. 21 - 24
Autor principal: Campbell-Kelly, Martin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2008
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