| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 458864 | Journal of Systems and Software | 2011 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
Open Source (OS) was born as a pragmatic alternative to the ideology of Free Software and it is now increasingly seen by companies as a new approach to developing and making business upon software. Whereas the role of firms is clear for commercial OS projects, it still needs investigation for projects based on communities. This paper analyses the impact of firms’ participation on popularity and internal software design quality for 643 SourceForge.net projects. Results show that firms’ involvement improves the ranking of OS projects, but, on the other hand, puts corporate constraints to OS developing practices, thus leading to lower structural software design quality.
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Authors
Eugenio Capra, Chiara Francalanci, Francesco Merlo, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra,