Are all open source projects created equal? understanding the sustainability of open source software development model

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2822-2832

  Long, Ju ^a   Yuan, Michael Juntao ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RED HAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Development model; Open source software; Software development; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DEVELOPMENT MODEL; INTRIGUING QUESTIONS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870041380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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