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Managing a Corporate Open Source Software Asset

By Vijay K. Gurbani, Anita Garvert, James D. Herbsleb
Communications of the ACM, February 2010, Vol. 53 No. 2, Pages 155-159
10.1145/1646353.1646392
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We define

corporate open source

(COS) as applying the precepts and methodologies prevalent in the open source development community for creating industrial-strength software projects in a corporation for internal use. Our ongoing work demonstrates that under the right circumstances, corporations can benefit from open source development techniques.

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