Internet success a study of open-source software commons

Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, Schweik and English examine stages of open-source software (OSS) development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Schweik, Charles M., 1961-
Other Authors English, Robert C., 1951-
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Subjects
Open source software.
Information commons.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262301206
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xii, 351 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • The importance of open-source software commons
  • The ecosystem
  • The developer
  • Technological and community attributes
  • Institutional attributes
  • The OSGeo case : an example of the evolving OSS ecosystem
  • Defining open-source software success and abandonment
  • What can SourceForge.net data alone tell us about open-source software commons?
  • Filling gaps in our data with the survey on free/libre and open-source success
  • Answering the questions raised in Part II
  • Putting it all together in multivariate models of success and abandonment
  • Thinking about Part III : a review of our epirical research
  • Our study in perspective.

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