Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Software Engineering
The Open Source Revolution: Transforming The Software Industry With Help From The Government, Mitchell L. Stoltz
The Open Source Revolution: Transforming The Software Industry With Help From The Government, Mitchell L. Stoltz
Pomona Senior Theses
A new method for making software is stealthily gaining ground in the computer industry, offering a promise of better, cheaper software and the empowerment of the user. The open source movement could revolutionize the software industry...if it succeeds. Open source means software that you are allowed to copy, modify, and give to friends. Source code , the lists of instructions which tell computers how to run, is readily available, allowing you to look inside the workings of a program and change it to suit your needs. A group of programmers, companies, users, and activists have gathered in support of this …