the activity of firms in opensource software to support their innovation strategies. Firms involved in open …-source software often make investments that will be shared with real and potential rivals. We identify four strategies firms employ …

We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms thatsell software and complementary goods or services … three business models: theproprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm areproprietary), the open source …

Empirical research on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has shown that developers tend to cluster around two main … points in the software life-cycle (e.g., major releases). This study analyses the activity patterns within the Linux kernel … these releases and patterns of effort and activities with traditional software products and processes, and in turn, the …

We consider software developers who can either work on an open sourceproject or on a closed source project. The former …

://www.jmir.org/2007/2/e8/ ] Background: Open source (OS) software is continuously gaining recognition and use in the biomedical domain … the users of biomedical OS software to better understand the quality risks, if any, and the developers to identify process … improvement opportunities to produce higher quality software. Methods: A survey of developers working on biomedical OS projects …

A new method for making software is stealthily gaining ground in the computer industry, offering a promise of better …, cheaper software and the empowerment of the user. The open source movement could revolutionize the software industry...if it … succeeds. Open source means software that you are allowed to copy, modify, and give to friends. Source code , the lists of …

source software sponsorship may be viewed as knowledge strategies of the firm. Hence, this dissertation examines the … methodologies, this dissertation found that these open source software sponsorship events can indeed boost the stock market …

Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect … occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software defect-occurrence patterns across twenty-two releases of four widely …-deployed, business-critical, production, software systems: a commercial operating system, a commercial middleware system, an open source …

Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely … deployment for open source software systems may enable informed decision-making. In this paper, we present an empirical case … study of ten releases of OpenBSD. We use the novel approach of predicting model parameters of software reliability growth …

the relationship between software developers and health services researchers. It argues that the common pattern of silo or …