The Economic Case for Open Source Foundations.

The article discusses open source foundation which is a group of people or companies helping one another to develop community open source software. Apache Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation are two examples. One primary reason for joining a foundation is to save costs for software developmen...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 86 - 91
Main Author: Riehle, Dirk
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jan2010
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