Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation

Kogut, Bruce; Metiu, Anca

doi:10.1093/oxrep/17.2.248

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“…Risk mitigation in software development, which has been researched in both commercial and open source software projects for the last decade or so (Iversen et al, 2004;Keil et al, 2008;Kogut and Metiu, 2001;McGhee, 2007) can be properly addressed in the field with the help of special tools and procedures. One tool that has recently been developed is SPDX.…”

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Collectivism, creativity, competition, and control in open source software development: reflections on the emergent governance of the SPDX<SUP align="right">®</SUP> working group

Kendall¹,

Kendall²,

Young³

2014

IJISAM

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Abstract:For over a decade, we assumed that software developers had a choice between the cathedral and the bazaar: developers could choose to develop propriety software in a structural hierarchy of planned development, testing, and documentation or in a tumultuous and exciting, quick release open source marketplace. We are finding that these assumptions are no longer valid. Corporate members' participation in open source software development and greater attention to compliance with open source licenses has signalled the need for new metaphors for open source software design and development. In this study, we use participant observation and functional discourse analysis to determine which metaphors are useful and seek evidence for these metaphors in the emergent governance structure of the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX ® ) working group, which is one of the important players in the future of open source development. We observed three governing structures for the SPDX working group: meritocracy, adhocracy, and family/republic and reflected back to the SPDX working group the need to pay greater attention to their governance structures to help in future strategic decisions. We conclude that open source developers now have a choice among collectivism, creativity, competition, and control. 126M. Germonprez et al.

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Collectivism, creativity, competition, and control in open source software development: reflections on the emergent governance of the SPDX<SUP align="right">®</SUP> working group

Kendall¹,

Kendall²,

Young³

2014

IJISAM

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“…Drawing [33]. The 'open development model' may come to push at the boundaries of the 'global project model', but only when or if the motivation of contributors change, actively seeking new experience, knowledge and skills.…”

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'Letting go of Control' to Embrace Open Source: Implications for Company and Community

Shaikh

Cornford

2010

2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Email: rmtorres@us.es Open-source phenomenon has also attracted the interest of academics and practitioners. It can be considered as a multidisciplinary research topic that have received an increasing attention during the last decade because of two reasons: firstly, its simple existence, secondly, the way it contradicts the traditional theories and common business practices (von Hippel 2007;von Hippel and von Krogh 2003;Kogut and Metiu 2001;Lerner and Tirole 2002;Wayner 2000). The importance of OSS communities has also been highlighted in several taxonomies related to the OSS research, where communities are considered part of several categories like OSS standards and regulations, OSS production, OSS governance, innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing, user and developer motivations, etc.…”

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Current issues and research trends on open-source software communities

Torres

Díaz‐Fernández

2013

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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Open source software (OSS) projects represent a new paradigm of software creation and development based on hundreds or even thousands of developers and users organised in the form of a virtual community. The success of an OSS project is closely linked to the successful organisation and development of the virtual community of support group. This paper reviews different fields and research topics related to the OSS communities such as collective intelligence, the structure of OSS communities, their success, communities as virtual organisations, motivation, shared knowledge, innovation and learning. The main challenges, results obtained, and the knowledge areas are detailed for each topic. Keywords: open source software; virtual communities; research trends; survey IntroductionThe open source software (OSS) represents a software development model in which the source code is available to programmers to view, read, modify and redistribute without the restrictions of the intellectual property rights, which is typical of proprietary software released under a licence. It stands for a radical shift from the traditional software-engineering practice, and a new and revolutionary way of software development (Moody 2001;Raymond 1999).There are important philosophical differences between the open-source and the proprietary software development. While traditional firms can derive competitive advantage from the ownership or control of internal resources, OSS firms depend on the capability to control resources which are external to the firm, in this case primarily in the form of OSS communities (Dahlander and Magnusson 2005). Another difference to the proprietary software development is that OSS projects are based on the individual contributions of dozens or even thousands of developers geographically distributed and organised as a virtual development community (Lee and Cole 2003). Its success is owing to both the optimal development of the projects (that is, the speed at which new versions are released, and its reliability, portability and scalability), and the participants from the community (Gruber and Henkel 2006;von Hippel and von Krogh 2003;Lakhani and von Hippel 2003;Martínez-Torres et al. 2010). OSS projects are based on virtual support communities (Lee and Cole 2003), that use the software and participate in their development. These * Corresponding author. Email: rmtorres@us.es Open-source phenomenon has also attracted the interest of academics and practitioners. It can be considered as a multidisciplinary research topic that have received an increasing attention during the last decade because of two reasons: firstly, its simple existence, secondly, the way it contradicts the traditional theories and common business practices (von Hippel 2007;von Hippel and von Krogh 2003;Kogut and Metiu 2001;Lerner and Tirole 2002;Wayner 2000). The importance of OSS communities has also been highlighted in several taxonomies related to the OSS research, where communities are considered part of several categories like OSS standards and ...

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Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation

Cited by 407 publications

References 22 publications

Collectivism, creativity, competition, and control in open source software development: reflections on the emergent governance of the SPDX<SUP align="right">®</SUP> working group

Collectivism, creativity, competition, and control in open source software development: reflections on the emergent governance of the SPDX<SUP align="right">®</SUP> working group

'Letting go of Control' to Embrace Open Source: Implications for Company and Community

Current issues and research trends on open-source software communities

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