Internet success : a study of open-source software commons / Charles M. Schweik and Robert C. English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweik, Charles M., 1961- author.

Contributor:

English, Robert C., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open source software.

Information commons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

I The Power of Openness and Internet-Based Collaboration 1

1 The Importance of Open-Source Software Commons 3

II What We Know about Open-Source Software Commons: Academic Research and Theory 13

2 The Ecosystem 15

3 The Developer 37

4 Technological and Community Attributes 57

5 Institutional Attributes 81

III Our Empirical Studies of Open-Source Software Commons 101

6 The OSGeo Case: An Example of the Evolving OSS Ecosystem 103

7 Defining Open-Source Software Success and Abandonment 129

8 What Can SourceForge.net Data Alone Tell Us about Open-Source Software Commons? 143

9 Filling Gaps in Our Data with the Survey on Free/Libre and Open-Source Success 179

10 Answering the Questions Raised in Part II 201

11 Putting It All Together in Multivariate Models of Success and Abandonment 257

12 Thinking about Part III: A Review of Our Empirical Research 281

IV Conclusions 301

13 Our Study in Perspective 303.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262301206

0262301202

OCLC:

795909901

Publisher Number:

9786613678980

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.