Open Source Software Development

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1 Wed. Jan 12, 2005. Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar First Monday, Vol.3 No.3 - March 2nd. 1998
2 Wed. Jan 12, 2005 Gisle Hannemyr Technology and Pleasure: Considering Hacking Constructive, First Monday, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1999
3 Tuesday Jan 18, 2005 Richard Stallman, The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement Open Sources : Voices from the Open Source Revolution, 1st Edition January 1999 (newer version),
4 Kirby (Tue. Jan 18, 2005) Lakhani, Karim R and Bob Wolf, Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects. Presentation
5 Nav (Wed. Jan 19, 2005) Hertel, Guido, Niedner, Sven, & Herrmann, Stefanie.  "Motivation of Software Developers in Open Source Projects:  An Internet-based Survey of Contributors to the Linux Kernel."  Working paper, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, June, 2003. Presentation
6 Chris (Tue. Jan 25, 2005) Ghosh, Rishab A.  "Understanding Free Software Developers: Findings from the FLOSS Study."  Working paper, MERIT/Institute of Infonomics, University of Maastricht, June, 2003.  Presentation
7 Peter (Wed. Jan 26, 2005) Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cristina Rossi, Licensing Schemes in the Production and Distribution of Open Source Software: An Empirical Investigation Presentation
8 Alan (Tue. Feb. 1) Iannacci, Federico Linux Management Model. First Monday Volume 8, Number 12 (Dec 2003)
9 Luis (Wed. Feb 2) Kogut, Bruce & Metiu, Anca.  "Open Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation".  Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 17 (2), pp. 248-264.
10 dmg (Wed. Feb. 9) Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study, by Michael W. Godfrey and Qiang Tu, Proc. of the 2000 Intl. Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM-00), San Jose, California, October 2000, Presentation
11 Belaid (Tue. Feb. 22 Mockus, Audris, Fielding, Roy T., & Herbsleb, James D.  "Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla.ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 11, No. 3, July 2002, Pages 309–346.
12 Yan (Tue. Mar 1) Koru, A. G. and Tian J, Defect handling in medium and large open source projects, Software, IEEE ,Volume: 21 , Issue: 4 , July-Aug. 2004. Presentation
13 dmg (Tue. Mar 8) Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, Apostolos Oikonomou & Georgios L. Bleris, Code quality analysis in open source software development, Information Systems Journal Volume 12 Issue 1 Page 43 - January 2002
14 Tao 1a (Wed. Mar. 9 Spinellis, Szyperski, How is Open Source Affecting Software Development. IEEE Software. (short)
15 Tao 1b (Wed. Mar. 9) Lussier, S. New tricks: how open source changed the way my team works IEEE Software Feb 2004 Page(s): 68- 72 (short)
16 Glen 1a (Tue. Mar. 15) IEEE Software Nov 2004, Open source reuse in commercial firms,Madanmohan, T.R.; Rahul De,Page(s): 62- 69 (short)
17 Glen 1b (Tue. Mar. 8) Gacek C and Ariel B The many meanings of open source. IEEE Software, Feb. 2004. Page(s): 34- 40 (short)
18 Dave (Wed. Mar. 16) Lerner, Josh, & Tirole, Jean.  "Some Simple Economics of Open Source."  The Journal of Industrial Economics, 50 (2), June, 2002, pp. 197-234.
19 4 von Krogh, Georg, Spaeth, Sebastian, & Lakhani, Karim R.  "Community, Joining, and Specialization in Open Source Software Innovation: A Case Study."  Working paper, MIT Sloan School of Management, June, 2003. 
20 7 Scacchi, Walt; "Understanding the Requirements for Developing Open Source Software Systems, IEEE Proceedings -- Software, 149(1) 24-39
21 9 Franke, Nikolaus & von Hippel, Eric.  "Satisfying Heterogeneous User Needs via Innovation Toolkits:  The Case of Apache Security Software."  MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper # 4341-02.
22 16 Witten, B.; Landwehr, C.; Caloyannides, M. Does open source improve system security? Software, IEEE ,Volume: 18 , Issue: 5 , Sept.-Oct. 2001, Pages:57 - 61 (short)
23 17 Wilson, G, Is the open-source community setting a bad example? Software, IEEE ,Volume: 16 , Issue: 1 , Jan.-Feb. 1999 Pages:23 - 25 (short)
24 18 Jamie Dinkelacker, Pankaj K. Garg, Rob Miller, Dean Nelson Progressive open source, May 2002 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
25 20 Crowston K, Annabi H, Howison J and Masango C, Effective work practices for software engineering: free/libre open source software development, Foundations of Software Engineering, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Interdisciplinary software engineering research, 2004
 
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