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Abstract

Free and open source software (FOSS) has been a close ally of academia from the beginning. The academic paradigm of publishing scientific results in a transparent and reproducible manner suits well with the open working ethics of FOSS projects, thus fostering great synergies between the two. While FOSS products provide universities with well functioning tools to work on real world business cases in a teaching environment, the scientific community is a major contributor to FOSS herself.

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