Abstract
This speculative paper offers a preliminary discussion of the academic study of open source software (OSS) communities. The paper includes (1) a description of the general growth of OSS research, (2) the argument that an understanding of OSS communities is critical to understanding OSS, (3) a review of the research to date which approaches OSS from a social or ethnographic viewpoint, and (4) an examination of one of the key issues to be addressed in future research on the subject. © 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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Feller, J. (2001). Thoughts on studying open source software communities. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 66, pp. 379–386). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35489-7_25
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