Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Software component quality assessment in practice: successes and practical impediments
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Quantitative evaluation of software quality
ICSE '76 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering
The development of the C programming language
History of programming languages---II
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Determinants of open source software project success: A longitudinal study
Decision Support Systems
Determinants of the Choice of Open Source Software License
Journal of Management Information Systems
Governance practices and software maintenance: A study of open source projects
Decision Support Systems
Competitive implications of software open-sourcing
Decision Support Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
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Despite a growing body of research on OSS production, much remains to be learned. One important issue concerns the measures of OSS project success and its determinants. In this paper, we empirically study the determinants of OSS success as measured by the number of subscribers and developers working on an OSS project. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our model forecasts these success measures more accurately as compared to a naive model. We find that OSS projects that develop software to work on Windows/UNIX/Linux operating systems, and developed using C or its derivative languages experience larger increase in subscribers and attract more developers than projects that do not have these characteristics. OSS projects with semi-restrictive licenses have fewer subscribers and attract fewer developers. Interestingly, OSS projects that accept financial donations and are targeted at IS/IT professionals have more subscribers than others, although these characteristics do not affect the developer base. The number of subscribers and developers increases with the age of the OSS project. Finally, the impact of developers on subscribers and subscribers on developers is positive and significant.