RE: Re: Community digest, Vol 1 #106 - 2 msgs

Hi Marcus,

I wrote my Master Thesis on the subject off the license choice in an OSS project. Some parts of it are based on transaction costs, but unfortunatly it's all in german.
If you're intrested I'll see if I find time to translate the key findings.

Regards

Chris

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From: Marcus Vinicius - Pesquisa [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:13 PM
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Subject: [F/OSS-Community] Re: Community digest, Vol 1 #106 - 2 msgs


Hi there,

Does anyone know a case study on open source and transaction costs economy ?

Thank you all.

Marcus Vinicius - M.Sc. Student - COPPE-UFRJ
Technoscience Antropology

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>Subject: [F/OSS-Community] Metrics for OSS performance
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>Hi there,
>This is my first visit to the list, and I am thrilled
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>Does anyone know of any reference with a good (valid
>and reliable) mesure of "performance of Open Source
>Software"?
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>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:58:05 -0500
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>>Does anyone know of any reference with a good (valid
>>and reliable) mesure of "performance of Open Source Software"?
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>This is an interesting question and AFAIK there isn't a canonical
>answer.
>
>Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi and I presented a paper on a related topic
>at ICIS late last year.  It is a survey of success measures which I 
>think will be of use to you.  I just realized that this wasn't posted 
>to opensource.mit.edu which I'll do now.
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>Meanwhile the project and paper is available here:
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>http://crowston.syr.edu/floss/
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>Is performance the same as success? Not exactly, but some of the issues
>(and probably measures) are the same. And this is something that I want 
>to add to the Success Paper.
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>Measuring success is hugely dependent on the goals of of the one doing
>the measuring.  In Proprietary software development this defining power 
>rested almost wholly with the Executive management, who largely relied 
>on the advice of accounts.  While commercial performance is still 
>relevant in FLOSS projects the cross-institutional nature of FLOSS 
>means that the power to define success lies much more directly with the 
>developers.
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>I think that any definition or measure of performance will need to take
>into account this element.
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>Please keep in touch because performance is of great interest to us as
>well.
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>Best regards,
>James Howison
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