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Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons

Charles M. Schweik and Robert C. English

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780262017251

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017251.001.0001

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Filling Gaps in Our Data with the Survey on Free/Libre and Open-Source Success

Filling Gaps in Our Data with the Survey on Free/Libre and Open-Source Success

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(p.179) 9 Filling Gaps in Our Data with the Survey on Free/Libre and Open-Source Success
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Internet Success
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Charles M. Schweik

Robert C. English

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262017251.003.0009

The Survey on Free/Libre and Open-Source Success, conducted in fall 2009 in collaboration with SourceForge Inc., the corporation that owns SourceForge.net (SF), sought to identify the factors which determine the success or abandonment of open-source software (OSS) projects. This chapter describes the survey’s goals, one of which was to discover the principles of successful OSS collaboration. Another goal of the survey was to verify the role of vision, leadership, and utility in the initiation stage and building community in the growth stage.

Keywords:   successful OSS collaboration, abandonment, open-source software, vision, leadership, utility, SourceForge.net, survey

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