Transition of governance in a mature open software source community: Evidence from the Debian case

Transition of governance in a mature open software source community: Evidence from the Debian case

As open source software (OSS) communities mature, they have to introduce a variety of governance mechanisms to manage the participation of their members and to coordinate the launch of new releases. The Debian community introduced new mechanisms of informal administrative control based on a constitu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Information economics and policy 2008-12, Vol.20 (4), p.323-332
Hauptverfasser: Sadowski, Bert M., Sadowski-Rasters, Gaby, Duysters, Geert
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