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The community source approach to software development and the Kuali experience

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Participating educational institutions get a much more cost-effective result compared to the commercial off-the-shelf alternative.

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                    Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 5
                    May 2014
                    110 pages
                    ISSN:0001-0782
                    EISSN:1557-7317
                    DOI:10.1145/2594413
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