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Adopting Open Source Software (OSS) components offers many potential advantages – such as cost effectiveness and increased reputation – but also introduces a variety of new risks related to the intrinsic fluidity of the OSS development projects. In this paper, we present results of a systematic literature review on OSS adoption risks, which allows to relate them to available OSS measures. Relying on the results of the review, we also present a risk-aware selection process, which uses OSS measures to rank OSS project according to the adopter’s criteria, improving the quality of the OSS component selection.
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Morandini, M., Siena, A., Susi, A. (2014). Risk Awareness in Open Source Component Selection. In: Abramowicz, W., Kokkinaki, A. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06695-0_21
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