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Understanding Best Practicesin Free/Open SourceSoftware Development
Walt ScacchiInstitute for Software ResearchSchool of Information and Computer ScienceUniversity of California, IrvineIrvine, CA 92697-3425Wscacchi@ics.uci.edu18 October 2003http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/Presentations/COSST/BestPractices.pdf 
 
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What is free/open source softwaredevelopment?
•Free (as in “freedom”) vs. open source –Freedom to access, browse/view, study, modify andredistribute the source code –Free is always open, but open is not always free•F/OSSD is not “software engineering” –
Different 
: F/OSSD can be faster, better, and cheaper than SE•F/OSSD involves
more
software development tools, Webresources, and personal computing resources
 
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Who is investing in OSSD?
•Large corporations: (IT and Financial)
 –IBM-
Eclipse
, Sun-
NetBeans
and
OpenOffice
, HP-
Gelato
, Apple-
Darwin
, Microsoft Research-
Rotor 
,SAP-
DB
, etc. –Barclays Global Investors, DKW
•Mid-size corporations:
 –RedHat, Novell
•Small (start-up) companies:
 –ActiveState, Collab.Net, Jabber, Ximian, JBoss,Compiere, etc.
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