Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons
Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons
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互联网的成功：开源软件共享研究
DOI：
10.7551/mitpress/9780262017251.001.0001
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发表时间：
2012
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Robert C. English
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作者：
C. Schweik;Robert C. English
使用开源软件（OSS） - 可读的软件源代码，可以自由地复制，修改和分发 - 近年来会大大扩展。例如，能够生产可用的软件并随着时间的推移维持持续的开发 - 而其他人被放弃了？在这本书中，首次大规模实证研究的产物旨在研究OSS，Charles Schweik和Robert English的社会，技术和机构方面的研究，这些因素会在OSS项目中取得成功，并致力于更好地了解互联网 - 基于协作。借助许多学科的文学作品，并使用用于研究环境共享研究的理论框架，Schweik和英语研究了OSS发展的阶段，并提出了成功和放弃的多元统计模型。 Schweik和English认为，分析OSS成功条件的条件也可能为软件工程以外领域的互联网合作提供信息，尤其是那些旨在解决复杂的技术，社会和政治问题的人。
The use of open-source software (OSS)--readable software source code that can be copied, modified, and distributed freely--has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number of OSS projects hosted on SourceForge.net (the largest hosting Web site for OSS), for example, grew from just over 100,000 in 2006 to more than 250,000 at the beginning of 2011. But why are some projects successful--that is, able to produce usable software and sustain ongoing development over time--while others are abandoned? In this book, the product of the first large-scale empirical study to look at social, technical, and institutional aspects of OSS, Charles Schweik and Robert English examine factors that lead to success in OSS projects and work toward a better understanding of Internet-based collaboration. Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, Schweik and English examine stages of OSS development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment. Schweik and English argue that analyzing the conditions of OSS successes may also inform Internet collaborations in fields beyond software engineering, particularly those that aim to solve complex technical, social, and political problems.