The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
Who is an open source software developer?
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Understanding open source software development
Understanding open source software development
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The Many Meanings of Open Source
IEEE Software
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Open source versus closed source: software quality in monopoly and competitive markets
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Optimal strategies of IT consulting firms: the impact of license fee and open source
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Electronic commerce
Determinants of open source software project success: A longitudinal study
Decision Support Systems
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Determinants of the Choice of Open Source Software License
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Technology and Management
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Firm-oriented success factors of an open source software (OSS) product
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development
Journal of Systems and Software
Adoption of Open Source Software: The role of social identification
Decision Support Systems
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Open source software licenses: Strong-copyleft, non-copyleft, or somewhere in between?
Decision Support Systems
Open source software success: Measures and analysis
Decision Support Systems
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A market mechanism for software component reuse: opportunities and barriers
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Strategies for software-based hybrid business models
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Predicting OSS Development Success: A Data Mining Approach
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
A Study of Open Source Software Development from Control Perspective
Journal of Database Management
Network ties and the success of open source software development
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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What differentiates successful from unsuccessful open source software projects? This paper develops and tests a model of the impacts of license restrictiveness and organizational sponsorship on two indicators of success: user interest in, and development activity on, open source software development projects. Using data gathered from Freshmeat.net and project home pages, the main conclusions derived from the analysis are that (1) license restrictiveness and organizational sponsorship interact to influence user perceptions of the likely utility of open source software in such a way that users are most attracted to projects that are sponsored by nonmarket organizations and that employ nonrestrictive licenses, and (2) licensing and sponsorship address complementary developer motivations such that the influence of licensing on development activity depends on what kind of organizational sponsor a project has. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and the paper outlines several avenues for future research.