From the Editors: Open Source Revisited: Its influence just keeps on growing.
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In our first open source theme issue last year (ACM Queue 1(5), July-August 2003), we focused on business issues such as using open source software as a basis for a commercial product. We knew that this was an important topic, but predicted that many of our readers might find it boring. We were wrong. That issue remains among the most responded-to issues of Queue to date. So with that response, we are revisiting the open source theme.
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Published: 01 May 2004
Published in QUEUE Volume 2, Issue 3
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