Sustainability in Open Source Software Commons: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study of SourceForge Projects

In this article, we summarize a five-year US National Science Foundation funded study designed to investigate the factors that lead some open source projects to ongoing collaborative success while many others become abandoned. Our primary interest was to conduct a study that was closely representati...

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Main Author: Charles M. Schweik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Carleton University 2013-01-01
Series:Technology Innovation Management Review
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Online Access:http://timreview.ca/sites/default/files/article_PDF/Schweik_TIMReview_January2013.pdf