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Open source as a foundation for systems research

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Muli Ben-Yehuda,

Eric Van HensbergenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 42, Issue 1

Pages 2 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/1341312.1341315

Published: 01 January 2008 Publication History

Abstract

You are a systems researcher at a corporate research lab. The corporation you work for deals with both proprietary and open source software. You have an exciting new idea that will undoubtedly revolutionize the field, but first you need to build a working system to validate it. Before embarking on your exploratory research project, you must decide: Do you start from scratch, or do you build upon a mature system? And if the latter---should the system be proprietary or open source?

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McKenney PWalpole J(2008)Introducing technology into the Linux kernelACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/1400097.140009942:5(4-17)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1400097.1400099
Ben-Yehuda MVan Hensbergen EFiuczynski M(2008)Minding the gapACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/1400097.140009842:5(1-3)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1400097.1400098

Index Terms

Open source as a foundation for systems research
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering

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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Volume 42, Issue 1

January 2008

133 pages

ISSN:0163-5980

DOI:10.1145/1341312

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Jamaludin NSahibuddin S(2014)Electronic Learning Industrial Environment System (eLINS) for Academia-Industry CollaborationLecture Notes on Software Engineering10.7763/LNSE.2014.V2.97(71-75)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.7763/LNSE.2014.V2.97
McKenney PWalpole J(2008)Introducing technology into the Linux kernelACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/1400097.140009942:5(4-17)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1400097.1400099
Ben-Yehuda MVan Hensbergen EFiuczynski M(2008)Minding the gapACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/1400097.140009842:5(1-3)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1400097.1400098

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