Drawbacks of Open Source Software
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The success of the Open Source Software movement is beyond doubt one of the most interesting and yet controversial phenomena in software development today. Many contributions stressed the successes and advantages of this new approach but there are alsomajor drawbacks, often (consciously) overlooked by the proponents of Open Source. This paper summarizes and categorizes these drawbacks to broaden the view onOSSD. Issues of usability, OSS community structure and the competition with commercial software are broached. Rosanwo — Drawbacks of Open Source Software 1
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