Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community
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Ali Bharchoondi
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Title | Source Community | ||||
Author | Marco Iansiti, Gregory L. Richards | ||||
Description | The increasing profile and influence of open source software (OSS) has been matched by a growing body of literature seeking to explain the motivations of contributors 2,3,4,5 Most research has focused on individual contributors 6,7,8,9,10, even though IT vendors have made significant contributions. IBM has contributed more than $1 billion to the development and promotion of the Linux operating system11 , and other vendors such as Sun are ramping up In this paper, we examine the motivations of large companies, information technology (“IT”) vendors, to invest in sold proprietary, “closed source” software invest millions of dollars in they chosen to invest, and what are the characteristics of the | ||||
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Enterprise Incentives, Investment, And Motivation in the Open Source Community
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