:The Effects of Commercialization on Open-Source Communities
The Effects of Commercialization on Open-Source Communities Mar 6, 2008, 01 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2536 reads) (Other stories by Matt Asay)
"Recent research suggests that much of the core development work on open-source projects is done by paid developers. Is this a bad thing?
"The answer is in the data. I just finished reading Evangelia Berdou's Ph.D. thesis 'Managing the Bazaar: Commercialization and peripheral participation in mature, community-led Free/Open source software projects,' and highly recommend it to anyone seeking to understand how open-source communities operate, especially in light of the increasing encroachment of commercial interests into open-source development communities..."