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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

How Can Open Source Software Projects Be Compared with Organizations?

Author : Remo Eckert

Published in: Open Source Systems: Enterprise Software and Solutions

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The existence of a community plays a central role in the development of Open Source Software (OSS). Communities are commonly defined as a group of people sharing common norms or values. The common interest of an OSS project is obvious: to develop software under an OSS license. When we look at the rather general definition of a community, we see that there is a similarity to the term ‘organization’. This paper draws parallels between OSS projects and the general elements of an organization and shows the different elements comprised in an OSS community: people, organization and assets. Each of those elements is enriched with examples from different research in the corresponding OSS research stream and provides a broad overview of the elements of OSS projects. With the help of this comparison, research on OSS can be made more focused and aligned with organizational research.

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Metadata
Title
How Can Open Source Software Projects Be Compared with Organizations?
Author
Remo Eckert
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Open Source Systems: Enterprise Software and Solutions

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-92374-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-92375-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92375-8_1

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