THE MIT PRESS INTERNET SUCCESS 2013 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: INTERNET SUCCESS: A STUDY OF OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE

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PUBLISHER: LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

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ISBN: 9780262017251 STORE DATE: 2013

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AUTHOR: CHARLES M. SCHWEIK, ROBERT C. ENGLISH



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The use of open-source software (OSS)--readable software source

code that can be copied, modified, and distributed freely--has

expanded dramatically in recent years. The number of OSS projects

hosted on SourceForge.net (the largest hosting Web site for OSS)

for example, grew from just over 100,000 in 2006 to more than

250,000 at the beginning of 2011. But why are some projects

successful--that is, able to produce usable software and sustain

ongoing development over time--while others are abandoned? In

this book, the product of the first large-scale empirical study

to look at social, technical, and institutional aspects of OSS

Charles Schweik and Robert English examine factors that lead to

success in OSS projects and work toward a better understanding of

Internet-based collaboration. Drawing on literature from many

disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the

study of environmental commons, Schweik and English examine

stages of OSS development, presenting multivariate statistical

models of success and abandonment. Schweik and English argue that

analyzing the conditions of OSS successes may also inform

Internet collaborations in fields beyond software engineering

particularly those that aim to solve complex technical, social

and political problems