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		Software still needs to be designed and produced, which is why the traditional closed source software development industry behaves as if it were a manufacturing industry.
		An open source project is managed in a passive way; there is no coercion to get developers to work on the project, the work is not assigned to specific individuals, and constraints such as time and money no longer affect the development direction.
		Open source projects can be categorized into phases, and while these phases may be ad hoc or different with each project, a standard set of phases has been described and used for the tens of thousands of projects on Sourceforge.net.
	home.sandiego.edu /~malone/html/OpenSourceModel.doc (6240 words)

	Open Source Software Development
		Open source is software developed by uncoordinated but loosely collaborating programmers, using freely distributed source code and the communications infrastructure of the Internet.
		These developments demonstrate a sustained interest in open source, and it is quickly becoming a viable alternative to conventional methods of software development, as companies attempt to leverage the Internet in reducing time to market.
		Open source is commonly used to describe the business case for free software, focusing more on the development process rather than any underlying moral requirements.
	chinese-school.netfirms.com /computer-article-open-source.html (5576 words)

	On the Xtreme in Open-Source Software Development \| Linux Journal
		Open source-package releases often are buggy and full of untested code, thanks to authors who have come to depend on bug-reports and feedback from users to such an extent that they do not perform elementary sanity-checks on their code before publishing it.
		Because most development endeavors in the open-source world happen in the off-hours, when the developers are not at their regular day jobs, we sometimes see releases that follow each other by scarcely a day only to be followed by lulls that may span years.
		The Open Source Developer does have some design in mind, and that changes over time (which is perfectly reasonable), and while it is shaping and re-shaping the implementation and is being cast and re-cast in concrete, he/she is too lazy to describe what is shaping and re-shaping it.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article.php?sid=7473 (3358 words)

	freshmeat.net: Editorials - Xtreme Programming and Open Source Software Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Open Source projects, almost without exception, are born as tools to serve some personal need of the developer, who, eventually, comes to believe that the tool may benefit the rest of mankind, and publishes it.
		Open Source package releases are often buggy and full of untested code, thanks to authors who have come to depend on bug reports and feedback from users to such an extent that they do not even perform elementary sanity checks on their code before publishing it.
		Since most development endeavors in the Open Source world happen in the off hours when the developers are not at their regular day jobs, we sometimes see releases that follow each other with scarcely a day in between followed by lulls that may span years.
	freshmeat.net /articles/view/1173 (3887 words)

	Open source software development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open source software development is the process by which open source software (or similar software whose source is publicly available) is developed.
		Open source software by its nature is often deployed on a large number of operating systems, and distributions.
		The source code of a mature project is released to the public, after being developed as proprietary software or inhouse software.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source_software_development (2219 words)

	ISR Research - Open Source Software Development
		UCI research in open source software development focuses on empirically-based studies of the processes, practices, and communities that develop open source software.
		Open EC/B: A Case Study in Electronic Commerce and Open Source Software Development, Walt Scacchi, Working Paper, Institute for Software Research, UC Irvine, July 2002.
		Software Development Practices in Open Software Development Communities, Walt Scacchi, presented at the 1st.
	www.isr.uci.edu /research-open-source.html (1336 words)

	Daniel Brookshier's Blog: Murphy’s Law and Open Source Software Development
		Open source is usually controlled by a tightly knit group of developers.
		Open source has so many hidden rules that it is hard to play the game sometimes.
		The open source process in most projects consists usually of an issue, then a proposed fix, a review, and if the review is positive, the code is committed.
	weblogs.java.net /blog/turbogeek/archive/2004/12/murphys_law_and.html (4412 words)

	Open-source software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open-source software is an antonym for closed source and refers to any computer software whose source code is available under a copyright license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form.
		Software developers may want to publish their software with an open-source software license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand how it works.
		"Open source" highlights that the source code is viewable to all and proponents of the term usually emphasize the quality of the software and how this is caused by the development models which are possible and popular among free and open source software projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_source_software (2694 words)

	Open Source Initiative OSI - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program.
		You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source." We also make copies of approved open source licenses here.
		We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.
	www.opensource.org (474 words)

	Why Open source software development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Open source software such as Linux is freely downloadable software that allows anyone to inspect and improve the source code.
		While the cost benefits of Open source are widely discussed and known, what is lesser known is the reliability, performance and security aspects.
		Open source platforms are far more secure than proprietary systems simply because security holes, if any are detected faster and corrected before it affects users.
	amarjyoti.com /displayarticle30.html (660 words)

	ACM Queue - Open source software development should strive for even greater code maintainability: A study of almost six ...
		Open source software (OSS), a term first coined in 1998 [3], has spurred many products in its short history, most notably the Linux operating system, the Apache server, and the so-called killer-apps such as BIND and Sendmail.
		The availability of the source code allows someone to make modifications to meet his or her own needs, while the lack of fl boxes is important for someone to inspect the code for its correctness and to assure dependability issues.
		Typical software metrics are the size of the code (measured in lines of code, number of statements, and so on) and the code complexity (measured through complexity figures such as the cyclomatic complexity).
	www.acmqueue.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=240 (1731 words)

	Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development
		However, if the Open Source community wishes to truly prosper and have their tools used by the general public, it is fundamentally necessary for them to recognize that the majority of the users will never know that they happened to invent a particularly clever algorithm for synchronizing the multi-threaded editing of their complex data structure.
		A very common problem among software developers (and not just ones working on Open Source projects) is the fallacy that intuitiveness is problem-specific rather than audience-specific: what is easy to them will naturally be easy to everyone else [6].
		Open Source software is being increasingly used in developing nations, where the cost of proprietary software is too high, and by governments around the globe, who are resisting reliance on a proprietary company.
	www.insanecats.com /my_open.html (2412 words)

	Tigris.org: Open Source Software Engineering
		Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development.
		The open source software development movement has produced a number of very powerful and useful software development tools, but it has also evolved a software development process that works well under conditions where normal development processes fail.
		Open source projects are also a great for developers to keep their skills current and plug into a growing base of shared experience for everyone in the field.
	tigris.org (488 words)

	redhat.com \| Open source development: The diversocracy
		Many software companies do not even understand how to do distributed software development at all, a skill that is a key success factor for open source development.
		This factor is simple but crucial: by opening up the software development process to the scrutiny of the world ensures that contributors focus on results instead of irrelevant differences such as status.
		Open source is probably more of a meritocracy than most other human endeavors, but that is not its real power.
	www.redhat.com /magazine/016feb06/features/meritocracy (959 words)

	SourceForge.net: About SourceForge.net
		SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code.
		Open Source software is also gaining increased momentum in the enterprise.
		Additional information on the growing use of Open Source technologies in the enterprise can be found in the VA Software white paper Leveraging Open Source Processes and Techniques in the Enterprise.
	sourceforge.net /docs/about (701 words)

	Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research
		Source availability is an additional form of consumer protection; the user benefits even if he or she does not program in C. It essentially ensures much better survivability of a product in a changing OS environment.
		Open source reminds me of the university, or more to the point, of the long-standing traditions of open knowledge-creating and sharing that are responsible for the impressive successes of Western science.
		The open source movement is playing an important and vital role in software development at the end of the 20th century, and open source will continue to be an important center for creativity in the next century.
	firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html (10337 words)

	Fundamental issues with open source software development
		If Open Source software wishes to become widely used and embraced by the general public, all five of these issues will have to be overcome.
		However, if the Open Source community wishes to truly prosper and have their tools used by the general public, it is fundamentally necessary for them to recognize that the majority of the users will never know that they happened to invent a particularly clever algorithm for synchronizing the multi–threaded editing of their complex data structure.
		A very common problem among software developers (and not just ones working on Open Source projects) is the fallacy that intuitiveness is problem–specific rather than audience–specific: what is easy to them will naturally be easy to everyone else [6].
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue9_4/levesque (2712 words)

	Feedback: What is Missing in Open Source Software Development - OSNews.com
		Having written open source software myself, and being a subscriber to mailing lists, etc, there is a realization that the number one thing missing from smaller open source projects is feedback from users.
		I am not saying that this is not the case in open source software, but it does not seem to happen a lot for smaller packges.
		Next time you download and use open source software that you feel is useful, and you think of some way to improve it or find a bug, do the community a favour and send a (nice) email/note/IRC msg back to the developer(s).
	www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=3786 (825 words)

	OSS Watch - Open Source Software Development
		The open source software development model differs from the closed source or proprietary model.
		Differences include the way the software is bundled or packaged and the roles played by participants.
		These resources explore aspects of open source software development from the perspective of the developer or project manager.
	www.oss-watch.ac.uk /resources/softwaredevelopment.xml (226 words)

	BBC - OpenSource
		It lists projects developed by the BBC where the source code has been released as open source.
		The site doesn't cover the many open source projects to which the BBC has contributed, but only those that the BBC has initiated and managed itself.
		Releasing open source software helps our audience get additional value from the work they've funded, and also get tools for free that they couldn't get any other way.
	www.bbc.co.uk /opensource (132 words)

	Amazon.com: Understanding Open Source Software Development: Books: Joseph Feller,Brian Fitzgerald,Eric S. Raymond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Understanding Open Source Software Development is complemented by the Open Source Resources portal at http://opensource.ucc.ie, featuring regularly maintained links to OSS companies, organizations, projects, publications, news, opinion, research and events.
		This may be the perfect book about open source software because it places open source within the context of business value and does not promote it as the great panacea that characterize the message of far too many books on the subject.
		The remainder of the book discusses aspects of open source as they relate to the CATWOE framework, which ensures that fair and complete treatments of the business and technical issues are given.
	www.amazon.com /Understanding-Open-Source-Software-Development/dp/0201734966 (1852 words)

	Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
		Note that those who use the term “open source software” tend to emphasize technical advantages of such software (such as better reliability and security), while those who use the term “Free Software” tend to emphasize freedom from control by another and/or ethical issues.
		Software that cannot be modified and redistributed without further limitation, but whose source code is visible (e.g., “source viewable” or “open box” software, including “shared source” and “community” licenses), is not considered here since such software don’t meet the definition of OSS/FS.
		Chuck Upsdell has combined many data sources and estimates that, as of September 2004, IE has decreased from 94% to 84%, as users switch to other browser families (mainly Gecko); he also believes this downward trend is likely to continue.
	www.dwheeler.com /oss_fs_why.html (15201 words)

	Free/Open Source Software Development
		Maureen O'Sullivan: "Free and Open Source Software Licensing and Legislation".
		Free/Open source software development has generated increasing interest in the last years, both in academic circles and the software industry.
		Regarding the development process, whose adherence to software engineering standards and guidelines is often debated, there is still a scarcity of quantitative accounts on Free or Open Source projects and communities.
	wwwai.wu-wien.ac.at /~koch/oss-book (1428 words)

	Software Development Tools for Software Development Projects using Open Source - Black Duck Software, Inc.
		Black Duck Software offers a suite of products to help companies govern how their software assets are created, managed, and licensed.
		Black Duck's offerings enable companies that develop software using third party and open source components to catch and resolve intellectual property and compliance issues as they occur during development, instead of in the marketplace.
		By validating software contents, verifying license compliance, and finding and addressing issues early in the development cycle - or well in advance of a due diligence event.
	www.blackducksoftware.com /products/index.html (412 words)

	Code Review: Business and Open Source Software Code Development Review Tools - Black Duck Software, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The open source software movement is fundamentally changing the software industry.
		Developers of software are using open source building blocks to accelerate time-to-market while lowering costs.
		Black Duck Software, exportIP and protexIP are the trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks contained in this web site are the property of their respective owners.
	www.blackducksoftware.com /services/ondemand/index.html (456 words)

	Exist - Global Expert for Open Source Technologies
		At Exist, we believe that people, process and platform are each critical elements that must work together as a system for successful outsourced software development.
		That’s why we’ve developed a formula that – for the first time – incorporates all of these elements.
		Exist Smartsourcing™ combines the cost-effectiveness of world-class offshore talent, progressive techniques honed in the Open Source community and a platform for end-to-end visibility and control of collaborative development.
	www.exist.com (158 words)

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