Journal article

Twenty years of open source software: From skepticism to mainstream

G Robles, I Steinmacher, P Adams, C Treude

IEEE Software | Published : 2019

Abstract

Open Source Software (OSS) has conquered the software world. You can see it nearly everywhere, from Internet infrastructure to mobile phones to the desktop. In addition to that, although many OSS practices were viewed with skepticism 20 years ago, several have become mainstream in software engineering today: from development tools such as Git to practices such as modern code reviews.

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Funding Acknowledgements

Gregorio Robles is supported by the Madrid Regional Government (e-Madrid-CM-P2018/TCS-4307), cofinanced by E.U. Structural Funds (FSE and FEDER), and by the Spanish Government (RTI2018-101963-B-I00). Christoph Treude is supported by the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award funding scheme (DE180100153).