Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!

By D. A. Wheeler. 2005

314 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/92fd0824c12384de5c662e53dbd8165f96910661

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Giuseppe Aceto
2. Valerio Persico
3. Antonio Pescapè

Citations in the corpus

• The Transformation of Open Source Software (2006, background): “Given this complexity, proprietary and open source advocates predictably have each claimed a lower TCO (Wheeler 2005).”
• Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy (2008, unknown): “associated with the acquisition of OSS (Wheeler, 2004).”
• A Survey on Information and Communication Technologies for Industry 4.0: State-of-the-Art, Taxonomies, Perspectives, and Challenges (2019, background): “The Internet can be considered an application context in which FLOSS has shown a specific evident success [176].”