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The Open Source movement is several decades old, but it wasn’t until the turn of the millennium that major companies entered the game. Traditional business wisdom had suggested that source code, which was seen as a “crown jewel” of a software company represented valuable intellectual property that should remain closed to maximize profit.
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Fitzgerald, B., Stol, KJ., Minör, S., Cosmo, H. (2017). The journeys. In: Scaling a Software Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53116-8_2
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