Thoughts on Studying Open Source Software Communities [chapter]

Joseph Feller
2001 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
This speculative paper offers a preliminary discussion of the academic study of open source software (OSS) communities. The paper includes (1) a description of the general growth of OSS research, (2) the argument that an understanding of OSS communities is critical to understanding OSS, (3) a review of the research to date which approaches OSS from a social or ethnographic viewpoint, and (4) an examination of one of the key issues to be addressed in future research on the subject.
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35489-7_25 fatcat:jhjynn37wrg6dkrrxwdihxss5u