Open Source: Concepts, Benefits, and Challenges

摘要: With the emergence of free and open source software (F/OSS) projects (e.g. Linux) as serious contenders to well-established proprietary software, advocates F/OSS are quick generalize superiority this approach development. On other hand, some wellestablished development firms view a threat vociferously refute claims advocates. This article represents tutorial on that tries objectively identify present software’s concepts, benefits, challenges. From our point view, is more than just software. We conceptualize it an IPO system consists license boundary system, community provides input, process, output. After describing evolution definition F/OSS, we three approaches benefiting from center (1) (2) community, (3) respectively. Each fit for specific situation unique set benefits further illustrate points by refuting common misconceptions associated with based upon conceptual framework.