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IBM's pragmatic embrace of open source

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Open source has changed the intellectual property landscape of the software industry.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 10
            October 2006
            85 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1164394
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