NSF Open Source Software Project: Publications

          A Multi-dimensional View of the “Sustainability” of Free & Open Source Software Development - Sustaining Commitment, Innovation and Maintainability with Growth
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Paul A. David
(August) 2006.

          Micro-dynamics of Free and Open Source Software Development: Lurking, laboring and launching new projects on SourceForge
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Paul A. David and Francesco Rullani
(June) 2006.

          The debate and the community: the ‘reflexive identity’ concept and the FLOSS community case
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Francesco Rullani
Working Paper No. 2005-18, Laboratory of Economics & Management - Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studie, Pisa, Italy:
(July 5) 2005.

          OWLS: The Oxford Workshop on Libre Source
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          Quantitative Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the SourceForge Project and Developer Populations: Prospective Research Themes and Methodologies
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Juan Mateos García
June 2004

          Free & Open Source Software Developers and ‘the Economy of Regard’: Participation and Code-Signing in the Modules of the Linux Kernel
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Jean-Michel Dalle, Paul A. David, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, & Frank A.Wolak
First draft: 24 March 2004 This version: 17 June 2004

          Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production
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J.-M. Dalle, P. A. David, Rishab A. Ghosh, and W. E. Steinmueller
First draft: 27 July 2004 This version: 3 December 2004

          Interim Results from FLOSS-US, the 2003 Web-based Survey of Free and Open Source Developers
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Arora, Seema, P.A. David and A. Waterman
February 2003

          Commercialization of Open Source Software: Symbiotic or Parasitic?
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Arora, Seema and Paul A. David
February 2003

          The Allocation of Software Development Resources in ‘Open Source’ Production Mode
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Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul A. David
Fall 2004

          First Full Findings from FLOSS-US: The Free/Libre and Open Source Developer Survey for 2003
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Paul A. David, Andrew H. Waterman and Seema Arora
September 2003

          Free and Open Source Software Developers and ‘the Economy of Regard’: A Quantitative Analysis of Code-Signing Patterns within the Linux Kernel
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Paul A. David and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
February 2003

          Free and Open Source Software Developers and ‘the Economy of Regard’: A Quantitative Analysis of Code-Signing Patterns within the Linux Kernel
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Paul A. David, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh and Frank A. Wolak
January 2004

          The Open Source Way of Working: A New Paradigm for the Division of Labour in Software Development?
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Juan Mateos Garcia and W. Edward Steinmueller
January 2003

          Applying the Open Source Development Model to Knowledge Work
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Juan Mateos Garcia and W. Edward Steinmueller
January 2003

          Clustering and Dependencies in Free/Open Software Development: Methodology and Preliminary Analysis,
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
February 2003

          The nature and composition of the Linux kernel developer community: a Dynamic Analysis
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh and Paul A. David
March 2003

          Exploring the limits of the ‘open source’ production mode: differences in the value of collective effort in knowledge-creation activities when coordination requirements vary
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W. Edward Steinmueller
August 2003

          Why They Do It and What that Implies for the Boundaries of Open Source Development Projects
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Andrew H. Waterman
February 2003