@article{e97e1b25d25d46e480408b76fc1e657f,
title = "Twenty years of open source software: From skepticism to mainstream",
author = "Gregorio Robles and Igor Steinmacher and Paul Adams and Christoph Treude",
note = "Funding Information: Looking Forward In the current environment, there e sincerely thank the is increasing interest in OSS from a writers and reviewers of practitioner{\textquoteright}s perspective, notice-W all of the high-quality able not only by the number of paid submissions we received for this theme developers but also by the rising issue. We also thank Editor in Chief number of previously closed source Ipek Ozkaya and her IEEE Software projects that have been open sourced. crew for its guidance and support. Recently, the rising importance of Happy reading. software in modern society has inspired many industrial sectors to embrace Acknowledgments OSS. Interestingly, companies that have Gregorio Robles is supported by historically been fierce competitors are the Madrid Regional Government now cooperating to develop software (e-Madrid-CM—P2018/TCS-4307), products for the marketplace. For these cofinanced by E.U. Structural Funds companies, OSS has been instrumental (FSE and FEDER), and by the Span-in making this cooperation possible. ish Government (RTI2018-101963-B-Beyond the production of software, I00). Christoph Treude is supported by key concepts of OSS, such as commu-the Australian Research Council{\textquoteright}s Dis-nity and sharing, are now a relevant as-covery Early Career Researcher Award pect of their innovation strategy. When funding scheme (DE180100153).",
year = "2019",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/MS.2019.2933672",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "36",
pages = "12--15",
journal = "IEEE Software",
issn = "0740-7459",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
number = "6",
}