Motivation, Governance & the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development
SSRN Electronic JournalPublished 1 January 2005Open access
Sonali Shah
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This paper inductively derives a framework for understanding participation from the perspective of the individual software developer based on data from two software communities with different governance structures.
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Open source software projects rely on the voluntary efforts of thousands of software developers, yet we know little about why developers choose to participate in this collective development process. This paper inductively derives a framework for understanding participation from the perspective of the individual software developer based on data from two software communities with different governance structures.
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