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Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
White Papers The open source software movement, which has gained publicity as the popularity of the Linux operating system has grown, provides an alternative to the economic incentives that dominate the thinking of U.S.intellectual property policy.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Open Source Software: A Source of Possibilities for Software Engineering Education and Empirical Software Engineering
White Papers Open source projects are an interesting source for software engineering education and research. By participating in open source projects students can improve their programming and design capabilities.
[January 2, 2009, 0:00]
Open source software may be free, but there's still money involved
Blog Serious money is being spent on employing coders to hack the kernel, and the companies responsible wouldn't do that if there was no money to be made from open source software. Open source software isn't anti-commercial, and it doesn't even just sit...
[August 21, 2009, 17:17]
Open source software offers reduced procurment risks
Talkback As a way for any business or government agencies to reduce their risks when acquiring open source software, I recommend they read the following: Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies http://www.finance.gov.au/publications...
[January 16, 2009, 20:30]
Open-source encryption software gets update
News The latest version of popular open-source encryption software TrueCrypt is available for download. The free open-source disk-encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux allows people to encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a storage...
[March 21, 2007, 14:23]
Open source versus free software debate rages
News Love was defending himself and the open source movement against reproaches by Richard Stallman, the chairman of the Free Software Foundation. I know that the open source movement has no clue about marketing, they underestimate it.
[June 25, 2001, 15:05]
The Department of Defense and Open Source Software
White Papers Is open source software a viable strategy for large-scale SOA deployments, especially at the U.S. This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on...
[October 15, 2009, 9:12]
Data Mining for Software Process Discovery in Open Source Software Development Communities
White Papers This paper explores techniques for discovering development processes from publicly available open source software development repositories that exploit advances in artificial intelligence. Software process discovery has historically been an...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Software Quality Assessment of Open Source Software
White Papers The open source software ecosystem comprises more than a hundred thousand applications of varying quality. Individuals and organizations wishing to use open source software packages have scarce objective data to evaluate their quality.
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
The Need for Open Source Software in Machine Learning
White Papers The authors argue that this situation can be significantly improved by increasing incentives for researchers to publish their software under an open source model. Open source tools have recently reached a level of maturity which makes them suitable...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Assuring Quality and Usability in Open Source Software Development
White Papers This paper reviews literature on quality and usability assurance in Open Source Software (OSS) development, focusing specifically on OSS that is targeted at a large user population, which does not consist only of OSS developers anymore.
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
The Total Cost of Security Patch Management: A Comparison of Microsoft Windows and Open Source Software
White Papers There is conflicting information in the IT community about whether security patch management in Microsoft Windows client and sever operating systems is more expensive than their open source software (OSS) counterparts.
[July 9, 2007, 0:55]
Using Open Source Software for Scientific Simulations, Data Visualization, and Publishing
White Papers Primarily, this is open source software. There is a growing number of software packages that can be legally downloaded from the Internet and used in educational and research projects under licenses that involve no costs and few practical restrictions.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Recommendations for Porting Open Source Software (OSS) to Blue Gene/P
White Papers Each of the Open Source Software (OSS) components that the application is dependent upon requires a separate port - some of which will be easy and others which might not. Migrating applications from a Linux cluster to IBM's Blue Gene/P can be a...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
NASA may launch open-source software projects
News An analyst for NASA recommended in a recent paper that the agency move some software development to an open-source model. The paper, published in late April and featured on the Slashdot discussion Web site on Friday, argues that developing software...
[May 19, 2003, 8:07]
A Business Case Study of Open Source Software
White Papers This paper was prepared as part of The MITRE Corporation’s FY00 Mission-Oriented Investigation and Experimentation (MOIE) research project "Open Source Software in Military Systems. This paper analyzes the business case of open source software.
[September 11, 2003, 23:40]
Development of Robot Controllers Based on PC Hardware and Open Source Software
White Papers In fact, most important success factors are the use of off-the-shelf hardware and open source and/or free software, as well as a design focused on reconfigurability and portability of the control software is crucial.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
The Use of Open Source Software in Education
White Papers This paper reviews the current literature regarding the use of Open Source software in education. Several key areas are covered including the strengths and limitations of Open Source software, its diffusion into education, and research on its...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Linux and Open Source Software: A Technical Perspective and Overview (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast offers a look at Linux and open-source software from the Microsoft Linux and Open Source Technology Analysis Center. He also discusses trends in the marketplace and provides perspective on how Microsoft views Linux and open-source...
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
eResearch Workflows for Studying Free and Open Source Software Development
White Papers This paper proposes a demonstration of eResearch workflow tools as a model for the research community studying free and open source software and its development. For purposes of background and justification, the paper first introduces eResearch as...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
