Intrinsic motivation in open source software development
Intrinsic motivation in open source software development
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jce.2006.10.001
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Schroeder, Philipp J. H.
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作者：
Bitzer, Juergen;Schrettl, Wolfram;Schroeder, Philipp J. H.
本文揭示了一个令人困惑的事实，即即使开源软件（OSS）是一种公共产品，它是由高素质，年轻，有动力的个人免费开发的，并以快速的速度发展。我们表明，当开放源码软件的发展被理解为私人提供的公共产品，这些功能出现很自然。我们采用了一个动态的私人提供公共产品的模型，以反映OSS现象的关键方面，如游戏价值或homo ludens回报，用户程序员和礼物文化的好处。这种内在动机在更广泛的开放源码软件文献中广泛存在，并为经济分析提供了新的见解。
This papers sheds light on the puzzling fact that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young, motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that when OSS development is understood as the private provision of a public good, these features emerge quite naturally. We adapt a dynamic private-provision-of-public-goods model to reflect key aspects of the OSS phenomenon, such as play value or homo ludens payoff, user-programmers' and gift culture benefits. Such intrinsic motives feature extensively in the wider OSS literature and contribute new insights to the economic analysis.