Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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Why do episodic volunteers stay in FLOSS communities? [ICSE 2019]
Abstract: Successful Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects incorporate both habitual and infrequent, or episodic, contributors. Using the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature, we derive a model consisting of five key constructs that we hypothesize affect episodic volunteers’ retention in FLOSS communities. To evaluate the model we conducted a…
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Should a public government stay out of the software market? 4/4
This is the last of four questions posed to me by a journalist about open source and the public sector. The original question was: If a government develops open source software, it becomes a vendor of that software. Shouldn’t a public government stay out of such business? A public government that develops or sponsors the…
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Should the public sector consider open source only for new purchases? 3/4
This is the third of four questions posed to me by a journalist about open source and the public sector. The economists have an answer for this. At any point in time should you evaluate the total life-time value of the various alternatives at hand and then chose the one that has the best value.…
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Why did Munich drop Linux and LibreOffice for Microsoft Windows and Office? 2/4
This is the second of four questions posed to me by a journalist about open source and the public sector. I was not involved with the Munich decision at all, so I can only speculate and provide the usual reasons that have been reported about why such failures happen. First of all, it is nothing…
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Should The Public Sector Use Open Source Software? 1/4
I was asked several questions by a journalist about open source and the public sector. I’m answering them here in sequence. This is the first of four blog posts and the first question was: Should the public sector use open source software? The public sector and public governments should use the software that lets them…
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My top three trends for open source in 2019 (1/3)
Trend #1 that took root in 2018 and will continue in 2019 is the clean-up of the open source supply chain. According to some lawyers, there is little legally valid software left, mostly because of unclear copyright and licenses of open source code in products and components. To clean up this mess, all open source…