Free and open source software for mathematical modeling

Free/Open Source Software

This position paper provides an overview of the Open Source Software movement and defines how companies can approach, exploit, and learn from it. More specifically, this position paper will first provide the needed details on Open Source licensing models – a key element to be aware of in order to safely approach Open Source. Then, it will provide motivating rationales for getting involved in Op...

Free and Open Source Software for Development

exploring expectations, achievements and the future Polimetrica Copyright and license You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to create and reproduce adaptations of the work Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or you...

Modeling the Free/Open Source Software Community: A Quantitative Investigation

This chapter reports the latest results from an ongoing study of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) Development at the community level. Publicly available data about F/OSS projects, developers, processes, and their relationships have been collected from F/OSS hosting sites, including SourceForge and others. Numerous descriptive statistics, including the existence of many power-law relationships,...

Public intervention for Free/Open Source Software

Open Source Mathematical Software: A White Paper

1 Open source software has had a profound effect on computing during the last decade, especially on web servers (Apache), web browsers (Firefox), operating systems (Linux and OS X), and programming languages (GCC, Java, Python, Perl, etc.). The purpose of this paper is to put forward the case that open source development methodologies might also have a positive effect on mathematical software, ...