How Companies Interact with Free Software Communities
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Free, libre, open source software (FLOSS) communities can be very complex and difficult to understand, so quantitative, neutral information about them becomes valuable, especially when they’re large and involve competing companies.1 Fortunately, many FLOSS projects operate in open, public development repositories, which has facilitated the progress of new analytics techniques to study them. In turn, these techniques have started to produce useful results for both practitioners and other stakeholders.2 In particular, studies of company participation in large projects have started to raise industrial interest: FLOSS foundations want to learn about company participation in their projects, and the companies want to know more about corporate activity in the projects on which they rely. Here, we present two studies in this area— by LibreSoft, a research group specializing in the quantitative analysis of software development, and Bitergia, a LibreSoft spin-off company focused on software analytics services—into company activity in OpenStack and the fairness of WebKit’s review process.
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