[Fsf-friends] The social structure of FLOSS
Frederick Noronha (FN)
fred@bytesforall.org
Wed May 4 00:16:41 IST 2005
REPORT: The social structure of free and open source software development
Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the
organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to
proprietary development by emphasizing FOSS's distinctive social and
communications structures. But what do we really know about the
communication patterns of FOSS projects? How generalizable are the
projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FOSS
projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important
because practitioner-advocates from within the FOSS community rely on
features of social structure to describe and account for some of
the advantages of FOSS production. - First Monday
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/crowston/
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