Название: Towards Engineering Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Ecosystems for Impact and SustainabilityАвтор: Brian Fitzgerald, Audris Mockus, Minghui Zhou
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2019
Страниц: 162
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 17.1 MB
Free/libre open source software (FLOSS) ecosystems such as Linux have had a tremendous impact on computing and society and have captured the attention of businesses, researchers, and policy makers. Research on FLOSS has been ongoing for almost two decades. From an economic perspective, the most common topics involve motivation and organization. As commercial participation in FLOSS has become common, the question of how to combine FLOSS practice with commercial practice has been the subject of research, particularly with a view to understanding how to ensure sustainability of the ecosystem.
Free/libre open source (FLOSS) ecosystems such as the Linux kernel have had a tremendous impact on computing and society and have captured the attention of businesses, researchers, and policy-makers. Millions of participants, from independent volunteers to those representing companies or government organizations, have created and maintained massive numbers of software projects, ranging from individual scratch space or classroom assignments to critical infrastructure projects such as the Linux Kernel, OpenStack, Docker, or Android. The spectrum and scale of FLOSS has substantially expanded in recent years, as has its popularity.
This book brought together a blend of established and young researchers who were actively studying the FLOSS phenomenon. These researchers were drawn from a variety of disciplines including software engineering, human computer interaction, information systems, computer-supported cooperative work, data mining, cognitive science, psychology, operations research, and management. Industry practitioners who were active in the FLOSS space also participated. This book presents the results of discussion on fundamental questions related to the impact and sustainability of FLOSS ecosystems, including:
- How does an ecosystem form? How do different stakeholders work together to form a community that develops and maintains valuable and freely available software, and how does an ecosystem with millions of repositories and developers operate given the lack of centralized planning?
- How does an ecosystem evolve in response to the environment as technology and needs evolve over time?
- How do newcomers learn the protocols and practices of an ecosystem? How would they sustain the ecosystem? What is the relationship between people and ecosystem sustainability?
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