As open source projects mature, money replaces time as what the community contributes -- and that's just fine. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

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In free and open-source software, these motivations are generally linked to retention. Social Norms Social norms describes how the people the participant interacts with on a daily basis—friends, ...

All open-source projects need contributors, but developers who join communities should not expect to instantly take on key development roles.

The real question for commercial open-source projects for me is whether commercially involved participants - e.g., customers and partners - can be motivated to contribute code.

Here's a wrinkle that many devotees of open source either don't know about or don't talk about: Open source projects can get acquired by commercial software companies. To demonstrate that point ...

His comment surprised me because for years I’ve believed the open source dogma that contributions somehow qualified developers and vendors to disproportionately profit from projects. This ...

What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit.

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