Research Looks at How Open Source Software Gets Written

Posted by dcparris on Sep 21, 2006 10:27 AM EDT
UC Davis
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Computer software systems are now among the most complex, expensive artifacts ever created by humans, and some of the most sophisticated are being built by teams of volunteers as "open source" projects, where any programmer can read the code and suggest changes. A group of UC Davis researchers has just received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how open source software such as the Apache Web server is built.

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