In a series of online reports UCI computer science researcher Walt Scacchi is documenting how open-source development breaks many of software engineering's formal rules, representing a new and better approach based on community building.

"This is perhaps a new fertile ground between software engineering and the world of open-source, and maybe what the open-source community can contribute to new academic and commercial development efforts," Scacchi told NewsFactor.

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