Open Source Drives Innovation

Author

Ebert, Christof

Author_Institution

Vector Consulting Services

Volume

24

Issue

3

fYear

2007

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

109

Abstract

The free and open source software movement has had phenomenal impact on the industry evolution. Alongside its important technological innovations, FOSS has sparked novel business models, intellectual property strategies, and software development paradigms. This article reflects on FOSS achievements and provides practical guidelines for leveraging its strengths and mitigating its risks. FOSS also changed the way we develop software. Many current engineering processes have evolved from the way open source is developed. This holds for iterative development and agile techniques as well as globally distributed software engineering

Keywords

public domain software; software prototyping; agile software development; business model; distributed software engineering; free open source software movement; industry evolution; intellectual property strategy; iterative software development; risk mitigation; technological innovation; Collaborative software; Databases; Guidelines; Linux; Open source software; Programming; Software standards; Software tools; Standards development; Technological innovation; free and open source software (FOSS); free software; open source software; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2007.83

Filename

4163037