Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

Open Source Day in Nuremberg

The Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) will hold its annual Open Source Day in Nuremberg this year, on 2013-11-20. For more information, please see the flyer. I am a member of the OSBA (the former Linux Solutions Group). I am also a member of the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF), which is headquartered in Nuremberg.…

2013-10-10
Editorial to special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source

(This is the editorial I wrote for the it – Information Technology, vol. 55, no. 5, journal issue, a special issue on open source that I edited.) The unstoppable rise of open source Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University (of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Open source software is software that is available for everyone to use for free, to adapt…

2013-10-02
Special journal issue: The unstoppable rise of open source

Oldenbourg Verlag just published a special issue on open source that I edited. Titled “the unstoppable rise of open source” it provides a five-article overview of open source past, present, and future. Please read my introduction to “the unstoppable rise of open source” and any of the papers provided in the special issue—naturally, I ensured…

2013-10-02
Paid vs. volunteer work in open source [HICSS 2014]

Abstract: Many open source projects have long become commercial. This paper shows just how much of open source software development is paid work and how much has remained volunteer work. Using a conservative approach, we find that about 50% of all open source software development has been paid work for many years now and that…

2013-08-22
Learning Across Open Collaboration Perspectives

I’m at WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 and happy to notice that some of the hoped-for magic is happening: A cross-polination of insights and ideas across the different disciplinary perspectives on open collaboration. Specifically, I found that open source has developed insights of value to open access, open data, Wikipedia, etc. that have arrived only now…

2013-08-07
How commercial involvement affects open source projects: Three case studies on issue reporting [Science China Journal]

Abstract: Most research on Internet software today has focused on inventing new technologies to keep track of a changing Internet. Little attention has been paid to the software development processes of Internet software. A large part of the software running the Internet is open source software. Open source software is developed both by volunteers and…

2013-08-05