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IT Professional, 2010
In this paper, free and open source software are discussed. Open source is an intellectual property destroyer. Nothing could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. Microsoft has an official open source presence on the Web (www.microsoft.com/opensource), and in July 2010, Jean Paoli, the General Manager for ...
Keith W. Miller 0001 +2 more
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In this paper, free and open source software are discussed. Open source is an intellectual property destroyer. Nothing could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. Microsoft has an official open source presence on the Web (www.microsoft.com/opensource), and in July 2010, Jean Paoli, the General Manager for ...
Keith W. Miller 0001 +2 more
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Scale Free in Software Metrics
30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06), 2006Software has become a complex piece of work by the collective efforts of many. And it is often hard to predict what the final outcome will be. This transition poses new challenge to the Software Engineering (SE) community. By employing methods from the study of complex network, we investigate the Object Oriented (OO) software metrics from a different ...
Jing Liu 0033 +3 more
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No Free Lunch for Software after All
IEEE Software, 2017Software's lack of reproduction costs provides benefits to not just legitimate developers but also people who want to use software for criminal purposes. The software community must address this issue or risk disenfranchising the users on whom the software industry depends.
Rutkowski, Anne F +2 more
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Free Simulation Software and Library
2017With the advent of powerful computation technologies and efficient algorithms, simulators became an important tool in most engineering areas. The field of humanoid robotics is no exception; there have been numerous simulation tools developed over the last two decades to foster research and development activities.
Uğurlu, Regaip Barkan, Ivaldi, S.
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Studying free software with free software and free methods
2018Institute for Software ...
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Reflections on free and open software
Communications of the ACM, 2004Considering the often overlapping perspectives in the software development realm.
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The ISIS-software family: from ‘Free and Open' to ‘Free and Open Source Software'
Innovation, 2009In this article the (CDS/)ISIS software will be discussed as a ‘predecessor' to the ‘Free and Open Source' (FOSS) software development movement which is currently gaining importance, also in the library and documentation field. Even though the full adherence of ISIS to this movement is of recent date, we will illustrate how from its beginning – which ...
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2005
This chapter presents an empirical study of a free software development community and how its virtual organizational culture influences its work practices. Results show that beliefs in free software and freedom of choice, and values in cooperative work and community influence work practices and norms.
Margaret S. Elliott, Walt Scacchi
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This chapter presents an empirical study of a free software development community and how its virtual organizational culture influences its work practices. Results show that beliefs in free software and freedom of choice, and values in cooperative work and community influence work practices and norms.
Margaret S. Elliott, Walt Scacchi
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Free and open source software for computational chemistry education
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science, 2022Susi Lehtola, Antti J Karttunen
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2017
This article examines whether the arguments put forward by Free Software advocates in the context of computers also apply for robots. It summarises their key arguments and explores whether or not they appear transferable to robot cases. Doing so, it comes to the conclusion that, in the majority of cases, the reasons that may make the use of Free ...
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This article examines whether the arguments put forward by Free Software advocates in the context of computers also apply for robots. It summarises their key arguments and explores whether or not they appear transferable to robot cases. Doing so, it comes to the conclusion that, in the majority of cases, the reasons that may make the use of Free ...
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