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

Hi, Christian,

I would be very thankful if you could do that to me.

My daughter reads and speaks german, so, if you could send me a copy of 
the thesis it would help too because she will try to translate what she 
understands. :-)

Thanks a lot,

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

"Many eyeballs tame complexity"
Eric Raymond
The Cathedral and the Bazaar



Christian.Isler1-Zc0CTiu5wcBWk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:

>Hi Marcus,
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>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
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>Chris
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marcus Vinicius - Pesquisa [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:13 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [F/OSS-Community] Re: Community digest, Vol 1 #106 - 2 msgs
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>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
>
>"Many eyeballs tame complexity"
>Eric Raymond
>The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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>>From: Jorge <jorgelin-/[email protected]>
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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
>>to find such a knowledgeable group!
>>Does anyone know of any reference with a good (valid
>>and reliable) mesure of "performance of Open Source
>>Software"?
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>>Thanks a lot
>>Jorge - Ivey - Western
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>>From: James Howison <[email protected]>
>>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:58:05 -0500
>>To: FLOSS Community <[email protected]>
>>Subject: [F/OSS-Community] Re: Metrics for OSS performance
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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.
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>>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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