With the emergence of free and open source software (F/OSS) projects (e.g. Linux) as serious contenders to well-established proprietary software, advocates of F/OSS are quick to generalize the superiority of this approach to software development. On the other hand, some wellestablished software development firms view F/OSS as a threat and vociferously refute the claims of F/OSS advocates. This ...

Open Source Software (OSS) has introduced a new dimension in software community. As the development and use of OSS becomes prominent, the question of its integration in education arises. In this paper, the following practices fundamental to projects and processes in software engineering are examined from an OSS perspective: project management; process, workflows, and collaborative activities; m...

This study presents findings from an empirical study directed at understanding the roles, forms, and consequences arising in requirements for open source software (OSS) development efforts. Five open source software development communities are described, examined, and compared to help discover what differences may be observed. At least two dozen kinds of software informalisms are found to play ...

This paper analyzes usability in open source software (OSS) development. OSS development is a current phenomenon both in Information Systems (IS) research and practice. Also the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community has started to acknowledge OSS development as an interesting object of study. The importance of usability is accepted within the both fields of IS and HCI. Usability of the OSS...

For traditional software development, process maturity models (CMMI, SPICE) have long been used to assess expected product quality and project predictability. For the case of OSS, however, these models are generally perceived as inadequate. In practice, though, many OSS communities are wellorganized, and there is evidence of varying levels of process maturity in OSS projects. This paper present...

Context: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop, acquire, use, and commercialize software. Objective: This paper seeks to identify how organizations adopt OSS, classify the literature according to these ways of adopting OSS, and with a focus on software development evaluate the research on adoption of OSS in organizations. Method: Based on the systematic literature...

According to its proponents, one of the most acclaimed advantages of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) is its superior quality. However, this suggestion is an open issue, since there is little concrete evidence to justify whether F/OSS quality is indeed better or worse than that of proprietary software products. The general perspective of this article is to discuss the current status of F/OSS q...

This paper proposes a dissertation designed to understand how the open source software (OSS) development group and its associated interest community jointly and independently impact OSS success for a single OSS project .

PURPOSE This study was performed to investigate the ability of recombinant human-bone morphogenic protein-2 immobilized on a heparin-grafted bone substrate to enhance the osteoblastic functions. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Bio-Oss®, not coated with any material, was used as a control group. In rhBMP-2-Bio-Oss® group, rhBMP-2 was coated with Bio-Oss® using only deep and dry methods (50 ng/mL, 24...

The emergence of open source software (OSS) communities, in which individual contributors freely share their innovations, has presented organizations with new opportunities to sell their software products and services (Von Hippel & Von Krogh, 2003). Well-known examples of firms that use the communal resources of OSS communities are IBM, SUN, and Red Hat. These and other organizations hope to be...