Open source movements as a model for organising
European Journal of Information Systems
Why JavaTM was-not-standardized twice
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans
Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
User acceptance model of open source software
Computers in Human Behavior
A knowledge-based approach to manage information systems interoperability
Information Systems
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Method chunks for interoperability
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
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Open source software (OSS) offers unprecedented opportunities to create variety. This could lead to incompatibility and fragmentation. To prevent this some form of coordination is needed. This paper explores which mechanisms of coordination are responsible for limiting divergence in OSS. Two cases are examined: Java and Linux. A systematic difference seems to exist between the mechanisms identified in the two communities. With respect to Java, divergence is where possible avoided ex ante, whereas for Linux divergence is foremost reduced ex post. The conclusion discusses this difference and the implications of both types of coordination in respect to interoperability.