Crowston, Kevin, and James Howison. “The Social Structure of Free and Open Source Software Development”. First Monday, vol. 10, 2, 2005, http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1207/1127.
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Author
Kevin Crowston
James Howison
Keywords
FLOSS
Abstract

Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FLOSS’s distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FLOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FLOSS projects?

Year of Publication
2005
Journal
First Monday
Volume
10
URL
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1207/1127