@article {flosswp153,
	title = {SOS-ware DEVILS[Strategic Open Software DEVelopment ILlnesseS]},
	year = {2004},
	month = {March},
	abstract = {Certain categories of software play a strategic role in contemporary public and private organizations. While software use is accelerated and diffused to more and more people and organisations, software development follows a reverse trend where fewer players form oligopolies, with some of them having almost reached a state of monopoly in certain areas. The evil consequences of such an evolution can be numerous, some of them relate to economic and security dependence and some others to phenomena of knowledge dependence and hysteresis. Within the current paper, we formulate a general framework that categorises the types of illnesses in open strategic software development from a number of viewpoints and the types of damages that could be inflicted to organizations and states as a result of false expectations if these illnesses persist. Finally, we identify the areas where research is considered to be urgently needed.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/blanas1.pdf},
	author = {George Blanas}
}
@article {flosswp152,
	title = {SOS-ware [Strategic Open Software] Perspectives},
	year = {2004},
	month = {March},
	abstract = {Certain types of software play a strategic role in the development of the various aspects of organizational life. One of these roles is knowledge development that can act as a facilitator of economic diamonds. We review the characteristics of strategic software and we try to answer the question whether there can exist open software development that would be able to incorporate these characteristics. Based on this review, and on certain case studies, we present a theory, on how open software might be able to close the gaps in knowledge creation and usage - or the reverse, ie. to become a vehicle for an acceleration of this hysteresis.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/blanas2.pdf},
	author = {George Blanas}
}
