A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover … decisions that can provide empirical estimates of relative importance within a single unified framework. -- Software ; open …

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

software industry, more digital by its nature, it is nowadays the standard to use version control systems such as git, with …, software, music, news, and videos (Waldfogel, 2017; Wu and Zhu, 2022). Three of the top 10 of the global 2000 list by Forbes in …