Crossover from endogenous to exogenous activity in open-source software development

Crossover from Endogenous to Exogenous Activity in Open- Source Software Development

– We have investigated the origin of fluctuations in the aggregated behaviour of an open-source software community. In a recent series of papers [1-3], de Menezes and co-workers have shown how to separate internal dynamics from external fluctuations by capturing the simultaneous activity of many system’s components. In spite of software development being a planned activity, the analysis of fluc...

Open Source Software Development*

This article examines and reviews what is known so far about free/open source software development (FOSSD). FOSSD is not the same as software engineering as that is portrayed in common textbooks. Instead, it is a complementary approach to address the many challenges that arise in the development of complex software systems that are often built outside of a traditional corporate software develop...

Findings from Open Source Software Development Context

Users should participate in information technology (IT) artifact development, but it has proven to be challenging. This applies also in the open source software (OSS) development. This chapter critically examines discursive construction of user participation in academic literatures and in practice, in IT artifact development. First three academic discourses constructing user participation are d...

From Open Source Software to Open Source Hardware

The open source software principles progressively give rise to new initiatives for culture (free culture), data (open data) or hardware (open hardware). The open hardware is experiencing a significant growth but the business models and legal aspects are not well known. This paper is dedicated to the economics of open hardware. We define the open hardware concept and determine intellectual prope...

The micro-dynamics of open source software development activity