Preliminary Results from an Empirical Study on the Growth of Open Source and Commercial Software Products
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This article describes an empirical study of the growth and evolution of three open source and three commercial software projects. This study identifies commonality and differences in the growth of these projects, and discusses how these results may be useful in planning software development strategies.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001