It's Your Responsibility: Managing the Transition to Open Source Software

by Gabriele Piccoli

Some debate can be had about the exact birth date of the open source software movement. Was it when computer enthusiasts and scientists began to exchange code? Was it at the time of the birth of the Internet when the infrastructure was made available to enable further collaboration? Was it more recently when the open source label was agreed upon and became a popular umbrella for many of these collaborative efforts?