Special Issue #2: Open Source — 3 October 2005

Table of Contents

The elephant and the blind men - Deciphering the Free/Libre/Open Source puzzle
Sandeep Krishnamurthy
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Future research on FLOSS development
Kevin Crowston
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Open Source software engineering - The state of research
Stefan Koch, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
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The future of sociology of FLOSS
Yuwei Lin
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Reflections on free software past and future
Benjamin Mako Hill
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Theres no such thing as free software (And its a good thing, too)
David McGowan
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The emerging economic paradigm of Open Source
Bruce Perens
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What did we learn from open source?
Ilkka Tuomi
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar (originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998)
Eric Raymond
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Cooking pot markets: an economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet (originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998)
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
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Homesteading the Noosphere (originally published in Volume 3, Number 10, October 1998)
Eric Raymond
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FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers (originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998)
Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh
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Altruistic individuals, selfish firms? (originally published in Volume 9, Number 1, January 2004)
Andrea Bonaccorsi, Cristina Rossi
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Cave or community? An empirical examination of 100 mature open source projects (originally published in Volume 7, Number 6, June 2002)
Sandeep Krishnamurthy
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The social structure of free and open source software development (originally published in Volume 10, Number 2, February 2005)
Kevin Crowston, James Howison
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Essence of distributed work: The case of the Linux kernel (originally published in Volume 5, Number 11, November 2000)
Jae Yun Moon, Lee Sproull
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Evolution of the Linux Credits file: Methodological challenges and reference data for Open Source research (originally published in Volume 9, Number 6, June 2004)
Ilkka Tuomi
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Management and virtual decentralised networks: The Linux project (originally published in Volume 6, Number 11, November 2001)
George N. Dafermos
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Linux: A bazaar at the edge of chaos (originally published in Volume 5, Number 3, March 2000)
Ko Kuwabara
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Fundamental issues with open source software development (originally published in Volume 9, Number 4, April 2004)
Michelle Levesque
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Code, culture and cash: The fading altruism of open source development (originally published in Volume 6, Number 12, December 2001)
David Lancashire
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The usability of open source software (originally published in Volume 8, Number 1, January 2003)
David M. Nichols, Michael B. Twidale
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