How Open Source Ate Software: Understand the Open Source Movement and So Much More

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G. HaffHow Open Source Ate Softwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6800-1_8

8. Open Source Opportunities and Challenges

Gordon Haff¹  

(1)

Lancaster, MA, USA

 

The prior chapters of this book focused on “open” primarily as it relates to software code and the software development model.

As we have seen, opening up code solved practical problems facing a computer industry with a fractured hardware and software landscape. Later, the open source development process became an increasingly important component of open source. In this case, the practical problems involved improving cooperation, innovation, and interoperability.

However, many of the same principles and ...