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Free and open source development practices in the game community Software IEEEPage 1focus07407459/04/$20.00 2004 IEEEPublished by the IEEE Computer SocietyIEEE SOFTWARE5 9only a smallbut growingnumber of systematic empirical studies exist that explainhow these communities produce software.35Similarly little is known about how community participants coordinate software development across different settings or about whatsoftware processes work practices and organizational contexts they need for success.Academic communities commercial enterprises and government agencies that want tobenefit from FOSS development will needgrounded models of its processes and practicesto effectively invest their limited resources. Myteam at the UC Institute for Software Researchinvestigated the software development practices social processes technical system configurations organizational contexts and interrelationships that give rise to FOSS systems indifferent communities. In particular welooked at the FOSS computer game community to provide examples of common development processes and practices.Understanding FOSS development practices No prior model or globally accepted framework exists that defines how FOSS is developed in practice. The starting point is to investigate FOSS practices in different communities.Researchers are investigating at least fourdiverse FOSS communities through empiricalFree and Open SourceDevelopment Practices inthe Game Community The free and open source software (FOSS) approach lets communities of likeminded participants develop software systems andrelated artifacts that are shared freely instead of offered asclosedsource commercial products. Free (as in freedom) software and open source software are closely related but slightly different approaches and licensing schemes for developing publicly shared software. Although the amount of popular literature that attests to FOSS is growing12developing with open source softwareWalt Sca ...

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