Open Source Software communities are exemplars of online and virtual collaboration among software developers. However, such communities are typified by a scarcity of volunteers with the result that OSS projects typically strive to garner necessary expertise. This study attempts to understand how...

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code - that is, on the “giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on the corresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...