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A Multi-Dimensional View of the "Sustainability" of Free & Open Source Software Development
Overview Questions of "Sustainability" are at the core of much of the speculative discussion about the long-term significance of the open source software movement, and particularly the characteristic community-based mode of developing FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) that is associated with large and successful projects such as Linux, Apache, GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, Firefox and MySQL. Advice directed to communities involved in individual projects tends to focus almost exclusively on the need to secure funding by developing a 'Business model' that yields direct or indirect sponsorship of firms that will expect to profit by marketing complementary goods and services. This paper addresses different issues and takes a different approach by considering several key determinants of the sustainability of the FLOSS production mode, viewing the latter from a "Systems perspective.".
| Publisher | Stanford University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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