Firms' involvement in Open Source projects: A trade-off between software structural quality and popularity

Authors:
Eugenio Capra;Chiara Francalanci;Francesco Merlo;Cristina Rossi-Lamastra
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/5, I-20133 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/5, I-20133 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/5, I-20133 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Politecnico di Milano, via Colombo 40, I-20133 Milano, Italy
Venue:
Journal of Systems and Software
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Open Source (OS) was born as a pragmatic alternative to the ideology of Free Software and it is now increasingly seen by companies as a new approach to developing and making business upon software. Whereas the role of firms is clear for commercial OS projects, it still needs investigation for projects based on communities. This paper analyses the impact of firms' participation on popularity and internal software design quality for 643 SourceForge.net projects. Results show that firms' involvement improves the ranking of OS projects, but, on the other hand, puts corporate constraints to OS developing practices, thus leading to lower structural software design quality.