Open source software: Lessons from and for software engineering

Computer

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 25-30

  Fitzgerald, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Global software development; Inner source; Open innovation; Open source software; Software engineering; Time based release management

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053968890     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2011.266     Document Type: Article

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