On the Nonmaintainability of Open-Source Software

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Title	On the Nonmaintainability of Open-Source Software
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2002
Authors	Schach, SR, Offutt, J
Secondary Title	Proceedings of the 2nd ICSE Workshop on Open Source
Keywords	Common coupling, coupling, lines of code, linux, linux kernel, loc, metrics
Notes	"We downloaded 365 versions of Linux. For each version in turn, we examined the 17 kernel modules and counted the number of lines of code in each module. Then we counted the number of instances of common (global) coupling between each of the kernel modules and all the other modules in that version of Linux. We obtained two primary results."
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