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Historical Reflections: Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?

By Martin Campbell-Kelly
Communications of the ACM, October 2008, Vol. 51 No. 10, Pages 21-23
10.1145/1400181.1400189
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Tracing the course of influential computing developments and considering possible paths to new paradigms.

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