DocumentCode
475810
Title
Not to profit from ppen source: The role of nonprofit organizations in open source software development
Author
Lee, Jyh-An
Author_Institution
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
fYear
2008
fDate
13-16 July 2008
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
9
Abstract
The papers explores the role of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in free or open source software (F/OSS ) development process. Based on two dominant NPO theories and a series of in-depth interviews with officials from NPOs in the F/OSS discourse, this paper argues that NPOs have provided the social structure necessary to support the production of F/OSS. By illustrating the role of these NPOs, this paper not only serves as a lens to understand the nonproprietary production process but also examines the robustness of the aforementioned NPO theories.
Keywords
public domain software; software engineering; system recovery; free-open source software; nonprofit organizations; nonproprietary production process; open source software development; contract failure; free software; government failure; market failure; nonprofit organizations; open source software;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Professional Communication Conference, 2008. IPCC 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2085-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610215
Filename
4610215
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