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January 5, 2004, 12:49 PM PT

Open-source developers have long done their work in the public eye. Now, they're doing it under an academic microscope.

Walt Scacchi, a senior research scientist at the University of California at Irvine's Institute for Software Research, has been looking at open-source projects from an analytical perspective, studying the open-source model in an ongoing, 10-year project that draws some comforting conclusions for open-source sponsors and developers.

Scacchi and fellow researchers have found a significant failure rate among open-source projects. But among those that get off the ground, research has shown not only that the open-source approach can yield better software more quickly and for less money than traditional methods but also that volunteering for an open-source project can be an effective way to get a job.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5135027.html

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