Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • The Commercial Open Source Business Model [AMCIS 2009]

    Abstract: Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software. Commercial open source at first glance represents an economic paradox: How can a firm earn money if it is making its product available for free as…

  • Open collaboration within corporations using software forges [Software Magazine]

    Open collaboration within corporations using software forges [Software Magazine]

    Abstract: Over the past 10 years, open source software has become an important cornerstone of the software industry. Commercial users have adopted it in standalone applications, and software vendors are embedding it in products. Surprisingly then, from a commercial perspective, open source software is developed differently from how corporations typically develop software. Research into how…

  • Estimating Commit Sizes Efficiently [OSS 2009]

    Authors: Philipp Hofmann, Dirk Riehle Abstract: The quantitative analysis of software projects can provide insights that let us better understand open source and other software development projects. An important variable used in the analysis of software projects is the amount of work being contributed, the commit size. Unfortunately, post-facto, the commit size can only be…

  • The Comment Density of Open Source Software Code [ICSE NIER 2009]

    Author: Oliver Arafat, Dirk Riehle Abstract: The development processes of open source software are different from traditional closed source development processes. Still, open source software is frequently of high quality. Thus, we are investigating how open source software creates high quality and whether it can maintain this quality for ever larger project sizes. In this…

  • The Commit Size Distribution of Open Source Software [HICSS 2009]

    Authors: Oliver Arafat, Dirk Riehle Abstract: With the growing economic importance of open source, we need to improve our understanding of how open source software development processes work. The analysis of code contributions to open source projects is an important part of such research. In this paper we analyze the size of code contributions to…

  • The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives [Computer Magazine]

    Author: Dirk Riehle Abstract: Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be committers, vendors feel pressure to produce open source products, and system integrators anticipate boosting profits. Reference: IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 4…