making the case for open source

Why Open-source Software? Look at the Numbers!

The goal of this paper is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS when you are looking for software, based on quantitative measures.

Open-source Software and Libraries Bibliography

This bibliography includes announcements, journal articles, and web documents that are about open-source software development in libraries.

Open Source Case for Business

The open-source model has a lot to offer the business world. It's a way to build open standards as actual software, rather than paper documents. It's a way that many companies and individuals can collaborate on a product that none of them could achieve alone. It's the rapid bug-fixes and the changes that the user asks for, done to the user's own schedule.

Open Source Case for Customers

Beyond all the reliability and quality gains [...], the open-source model has one overwhelming advantage for the software customer: you aren't a prisoner.