Sowe S.K., Stamelos I.G., Samolaas I.M. (eds.) Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices

IGI Publishing, 2007. — 307 p. — ISBN: 159904210X.Project infrastructure and software repositories are now widely available at low cost with easy extraction, providing a foundational base to conduct detailed cyber-archeology at a scale not open to researchers before.Emerging Free and Open-source Software Practices provides a collection of empirical research acting as a focal point to the status of these repositories and infrastructures along with the F/OSS project, presenting a framework and state-of-the-art references on F/OSS projects, reporting on case studies covering a wide range of F/OSS applications and domains. It asserts trends in the evolution of software practices and solutions to the challenges ubiquitous nature free and open-source software provides.