In the last few years, all of us in the IT industry, and many of the general public, have come to accept free and open source software (F/OSS) as a fact of life. While some of its more esoteric aspects -- such as the precise distinction between free software and OSS or the enchanted world of F/OSS licensing -- are little understood, most of us could reel off half a dozen or so F/OSS packages.
Executive Report
The Open Source Ecosystem: A Study in Fractal Complexity
By Tom Welsh
Posted April 1, 2006 | Technology |
About The Author
Tom Welsh is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business & Enterprise Architecture practice. He is an independent consultant and analyst specializing in middleware, object technology, and software engineering. At Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Welsh was a hardware technician, software support specialist, corporate software developer, and senior technology consultant, before taking on the task of marketing Digital's OO software… Read More
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