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Free and Open Source Software Quality Assurance

2006 2nd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies, 2006
During the past two decades, the Free and Open Source Software community has been developing high quality software that proved to be a serious rival to proprietary software produced by commercial companies. However, in spite of its considerable success within the developers' community, F/OSS did not attract many enthusiasts from outside this community.
A. Tawileh, O. Rana
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Review on free and open source software

2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2008
This study investigated the history of free and open source software (FOSS), comparative analyzed notions of free software and open source software, further studied on support forces and development status of free and open source software. Based on comprehensive review, we aim to suggest that free and open source software has a very bright development ...
null Jing Yang, null Jiang Wang
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Teaching Software Testing with Free and Open Source Software

2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), 2020
Software quality assurance and testing is a vital phase in the software development lifecycle, oftentimes requiring a significant portion of the overall development budget. Providing authentic, real-world software quality assurance and testing experiences within the context of a Computer Science or Software Engineering curriculum is challenging.
Lin Deng, Josh Dehlinger, Suranjan Chakraborty   +2 more
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Free and Open Source Software

2015
Unternehmenssoftware wird klassischerweise unter kostenpflichtigen Lizenzen vertrieben, ohne dass der Quellcode offengelegt wird: Der Anwender kauft – in Abhangigkeit von der Anzahl an (named oder concurrent) Usern, die mit der Software arbeiten sollen – eine bestimmte Zahl Softwarelizenzen und erhalt somit das Recht, die Software zu nutzen.
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Protecting Free and Open Source Software

2011
Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 12: 2010 ...
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Competition between Free Open Source, Commercial Open Source and Proprietary Software

Journal of Communications, 2013
This paper investigates competition between open source and proprietary software. Open source software is divided into two types: free open source and commercial open source. Free open source software can be available from the not-for-profit community, and Commercial open source software is software product based on free open source software.
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Free Software and Open Source Databases

2005
Free software and open source databases have become a serious alternative to commercial databases. This article states common points and differences between the open source and free software movements and briefly describes the most relevant licenses and database projects.
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Profiting from Free and Open Source Software

2020
The Linux distributor Red Hat (acquired by IBM in 2018) makes a lot of money from free software, raking in more profit than its competitor Canonical from the more popular Ubuntu distribution. Ideologically it either conflates free software and open source software, or only speaks about open source and the open source community.
Arwid Lund, Mariano Zukerfeld
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Free and Open Source Software and Software Acquisition Cost

2008
This exploratory study analyzes the attitudes toward Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on the campus on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study focuses primarily on the monetary incentive of FOSS given the unusual set of circumstances in academia, including academic pricing and site licensing.
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Free Software Philosophy and Open Source

2007
This chapter introduces and explains some of the most relevant features of the free software philosophy formulated by Richard M. Stallman in the 1980s. The free software philosophy and the free software movement built on it historically preceded the open source movement by a decade and provided some of the key technological, legal and ideological ...
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