Software Patents and Open Source Software in the European Union: Evidences of a Trade-Off?
Francesco RentocchiniGiuditta De PratoPublished in: OSS (2006)
Keyphrases
- open source software
- trade off
- software development
- source code
- open source projects
- open source
- free software
- mailing lists
- proprietary software
- software systems
- intellectual property
- software vendors
- maintenance effort
- development team
- software projects
- software engineering
- open source software development
- software quality
- software design
- development process
- information retrieval
- software evolution
- software maintenance
- commercial software
- case study
- quality assurance
- software engineers
- development cycle
- database
- software components
- software architecture
- information technology