David A. Wheeler
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David A. Wheeler
David A. Wheeler (born 1965) is a computer scientist best-known in the field of Open Source and Free Software, but much of his work is in the field of high-risk software systems, particularly large software systems and computer security.
In a 2001 research paper,[1] Wheeler established the theoretical cost of development of the existing body of open source software by applying metrics for costing commercial software by source lines of code for the software distribution known as Debian GNU/Linux. At the time of his paper, the software within the Debian system turned out to be worth more than a Billion US Dollars.
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[edit] Publications
- Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice by David A. Wheeler, Bill Brykczynski, and Reginald N. Meeson, Jr. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 0-8186-7340-0.
- Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-94801-5.
[edit] Scientific papers
- "Commercial" is not the opposite of Free-Libre/Open-Source Software
- Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!
- Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
- More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size
- The Most Important Software Innovations
- Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else.
Wheeler lives in Northern Virginia.
