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To rule and be ruled: Governance and participation in FOSS projects

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (2010) 319 AICT 380-388
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_35
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Abstract

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Development has evoked images of full participation, emancipation and flat organization. Despite such rhetoric, some recent studies and practices reveal the reemergence of hierarchical structures in one form or another as an almost inevitable aspect of the software development process. The objective of this paper is to investigate, both theoretically and empirically, the reasons behind this reappearance of hierarchy and its impact on the participation patterns of open source projects. © 2010 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.

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Seifu, Z., & Tsiavos, P. (2010). To rule and be ruled: Governance and participation in FOSS projects. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 319 AICT, pp. 380–388). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_35

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