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Special Issue #2: Open Source — 3 October 2005

Special Issue Deciphering the Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) Puzzle edited by Sandeep Krishnamurthy

Introduction

The elephant and the blind men - Deciphering the Free/Libre/Open Source puzzle
by Sandeep Krishnamurthy

 

Reflections (in alphabetical order)

Future research on FLOSS development
by Kevin Crowston

Open Source software engineering — The state of research
by Stefan Koch and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

The future of sociology of FLOSS
by Yuwei Lin

Reflections on free software past and future
by Benjamin Mako Hill

There’s no such thing as free software (And it’s a good thing, too)
by David McGowan

The emerging economic paradigm of Open Source
by Bruce Perens

What did we learn from Open Source?
by Ilkka Tuomi

 

The Classic Beginning

The cathedral and the bazaar
by Eric Raymond (originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998)

Cooking pot markets: An economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet
by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998)

Homesteading the noosphere
by Eric Raymond (originally published in Volume 3, Number 10, October 1998)

 

Motivation

FM Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?
by Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh (originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998)

Altruistic individuals, selfish firms? The structure of motivation in Open Source software
by Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cristina Rossi (originally published in Volume 9, Number 1, January 2004)

 

Social Structure

Cave or community: An empirical examination of 100 mature Open Source projects
by Sandeep Krishnamurthy (originally published in Volume 7, Number 6, June 2002)

The social structure of free and Open Source software development
by Kevin Crowston and James Howison (originally published in Volume 10, Number 2, February 2005)

 

Linux

Essence of distributed work: The case of the Linux kernel
by Jae Yun Moon and Lee Sproull (originally published in Volume 5, Number 11, November 2000)

Evolution of the Linux credits file: Methodological challenges and reference data for Open Source research
by Ilkka Tuomi (originally published in Volume 9, Number 6, June 2004)

Management and virtual decentralised networks: The Linux project
by George N. Dafermos (originally published in Volume 6, Number 11, November 2001)

Linux: A bazaar at the edge of chaos
by Ko Kuwabara (originally published in Volume 5, Number 3, March 2000)

 

Critiques of Open Source

Fundamental issues with Open Source software development
by Michelle Levesque (originally published in Volume 9, Number 4, April 2004)

The fading altruism of Open Source development
by David Lancashire (originally published in Volume 6, Number 12, December 2001)

The usability of Open Source software
by David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale (originally published in Volume 8, Number 1, January 2003)


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