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Pan, Guohua; Bonk, Curtis J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
Unlike conventional models of software development, the open source model is based on the collaborative efforts of users who are also co-developers of the software. Interest in open source software has grown exponentially in recent years. A "Google" search for the phrase open source in early 2005 returned 28.8 million webpage hits, while…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Participative Decision Making, Models, Innovation