Sustainability of free/Libre open source projects: A longitudinal study

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 657-683

  Chengalur Smith, Indu Shobha ^a   Sidorova, Anna ^b   Daniel, Sherae ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Developer activity; FLOSS; Legitimacy; Organizational ecology; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

DEVELOPER ACTIVITIES; FLOSS; FLOSS PROJECTS; LEGITIMACY; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY; PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY; SOURCEFORGE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 78650330440     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00244     Document Type: Article

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