@proceedings {1713,
	title = {Gender and Tenure Diversity in GitHub Teams},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {Software development is usually a collaborative venture.
Open Source Software (OSS) projects are no exception; indeed,
by design, the OSS approach can accommodate teams
that are more open, geographically distributed, and dynamic
than commercial teams. This, we find, leads to OSS teams
that are quite diverse. Team diversity, predominantly in of-
fline groups, is known to correlate with team output, mostly
with positive effects. How about in OSS?
Using GITHUB, the largest publicly available collection of
OSS projects, we studied how gender and tenure diversity
relate to team productivity and turnover. Using regression
modeling of GITHUB data and the results of a survey, we
show that both gender and tenure diversity are positive and
significant predictors of productivity, together explaining a
sizable fraction of the data variability. These results can
inform decision making on all levels, leading to better outcomes
in recruiting and performance.},
	keywords = {gender, github, team},
	url = {http://bvasiles.github.io/papers/chi15.pdf},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/chi15.pdf},
	author = {Vasilescu, Bogdan and Posnett, Daryl and Ray, Baishakhi and van den Brand, Mark G.J. and Serebrenik, Alexander and Devanbu, Premkumar and Filkov, Vladimir}
}
@proceedings {KMGSL15,
	title = {Generating the Blueprints of the Java Ecosystem},
	year = {2015},
	note = {To appear},
	month = {05/2015},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
	url = {http://gaijin.dmst.aueb.gr/~bkarak/poster_msr2015.pdf},
	author = {Vassilios Karakoidas and Mitropoulos, Dimitris and Louridas, Panos and Gousios, Georgios and Diomidis Spinellis}
}
@conference {Bloemen:2014:GPD:2597073.2597131,
	title = {Gentoo Package Dependencies over Time},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories},
	series = {MSR 2014},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {404{\textendash}407},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Open source distributions such as Gentoo need to accurately track dependency relations between software packages in order to install working systems. To do this, Gentoo has a carefully authored database containing those relations. In this paper, we extract the Gentoo package dependency graph and its changes over time. The final dependency graph spans 15 thousand open source projects and 80 thousand dependency relations. Furthermore, the development of this graph is tracked over time from the beginning of the Gentoo project in 2000 to the first quarter of 2012, with monthly resolution. The resulting dataset provides many opportunities for research. In this paper we explore cluster analysis to reveals meaningful relations between packages and in a separate paper we analyze changes in the dependencies over time to get insights in the innovation dynamics of open source software.
},
	keywords = {dependencies, gentoo, graph, INNOVATION},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-2863-0},
	doi = {10.1145/2597073.2597131},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2597073.2597131},
	author = {Bloemen, Remco and Amrit, Chintan and Kuhlmann, Stefan and Ord{\'o}{\~n}ez{\textendash}Matamoros, Gonzalo}
}
@proceedings {1572,
	title = {Governance of Open Source Electronic Health Record Projects: A Successful Case of a Hybrid Model},
	year = {2014},
	month = {01/2014},
	pages = {2798-2807},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
	abstract = {Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are at the heart of most health system reforms. As an increasing number of hospitals are adopting open source EHRs and as many questions are still unanswered for potential adopters of open source EHRs, analyzing the governance of such systems has become important. Due to the increased diversity of sponsors and stakeholders of open source software (OSS) over the past few years, numerous governance models of OSS projects have emerged. In contrast to earlier {\textquotedblleft}community-managed{\textquotedblright} governance model s, these emergent models are characterized by the sponsorship of a corporation or a not-for-profit entity or by other hybrid forms. This paper reports on the investigation of such a hybrid model of open source EHR project governance adopted with success by a large Canadian hospital. The case study provides rich insights for other hospitals wishing to adopt an EHR of the open source type.},
	doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2014.350},
	author = {Placide Poba-Nzaou and Josianne Marsan and Guy Pare and Louis Raymond}
}
@conference {1684,
	title = {Gendered Patterns of Politeness in Free/Libre Open Source Software Development},
	booktitle = {2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {3168 - 3177},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Wailea, HI, USA},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-4892-0},
	doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2013.240},
	url = {https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~eymoon/pdf/hicss46\%20eymoon\%20(proceeding).pdf},
	author = {Moon, Eunyoung}
}
@conference {G13,
	title = {The GHTorrent dataset and tool suite},
	booktitle = {MSR {\textquoteright}13: Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories},
	year = {2013},
	note = {Example of how to use the data/tool: http://www.gousios.gr/blog/on-github-pull-requests/},
	month = {05/2013},
	abstract = {A common requirement of many empirical software engineering studies is the acquisition and curation of data from software repositories. During the last few years, GitHub has emerged as a popular project hosting, mirroring and collaboration platform. GitHub provides an extensive REST API, which enables researchers to retrieve both the commits to the projects{\textquoteright} repositories and events generated through user actions on project resources. GHTorrent aims to create a scalable off line mirror of GitHub{\textquoteright}s event streams and persistent data, and offer it to the research community as a service. In this paper, we present the project{\textquoteright}s design and initial implementation and demonstrate how the provided datasets can be queried and processed.},
	url = {http://www.gousios.gr/bibliography/G13.html},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/ghtorrent-dataset-toolsuite.pdf},
	author = {Gousios, Georgios}
}
@proceedings {1444,
	title = {Gender Differences in Early Free and Open Source Software Joining Process},
	volume = {378},
	year = {2012},
	note = {"We examined subscriber logs and data for six FOSS projects..."
"We examined the differences between posters and non-posters to determine the attrition rate..."
"Using data from the US Census, we matched names to lists of the most common female and male names. We identified 666 users using this process."},
	month = {09/2012},
	pages = {78-93},
	publisher = {IFIP AICT, Springer},
	address = {Eighth International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2012)},
	abstract = {With the growth of free and open source software (FOSS) and the adoption of FOSS solutions in business and everyday life, it is important that projects serve their growingly diverse user base. The sustainability of FOSS projects relies on a constant influx of new contributors. Several large demo- graphic surveys found that FOSS communities are very homogenous, dominated by young men, similar to the bias existing in the rest of the IT workforce. Building on previous research, we examine mailing list subscriptions and posting statistics of female FOSS participants. New participants often experience their first interaction on a FOSS project{\textquoteright}s mailing list. We explored six FOSS projects {\textendash} Buildroot, Busybox, Jaws, Parrot, uClibc, and Yum. We found a declining rate of female participation from the 8.27\% of subscribers, to 6.63\% of posters, and finally the often reported code contributor rate of 1.5\%. We found a disproportionate attrition rate among women along every step of the FOSS joining process.},
	keywords = {buildroot, busybox, diversity, email, jaws, joining process, mailing lists, parrot, uClibc, Yum},
	author = {Kuechler, Victor and Gilbertson, Claire and Jensen, Carlos}
}
@proceedings {1272,
	title = {Ginga-J: An Open Java-Based Application Environment for Interactive Digital Television Services},
	year = {2011},
	month = {10/2011},
	pages = {34-49},
	publisher = {Springer},
	abstract = {This paper aims to present a Ginga-J{\textquoteright}s reference implementation. Although based on a particular platform, the implementation not only works as a proof of concept, but also raised several issues and difficulties on the software architecture project that should be taken into account to ease extensibility and porting to other platforms. Ginga is the standard middleware for the Brazilian DTV System. Its imperative environment (Ginga-J) is based on new JavaDTV specification and mandatory for fixed terrestrial receptors.},
	author = {Kulesza, Raoni and Lima, Jefferson F.A. and Guedes, Alan L. and Junior, Lucenildo L.A. and Meira, Silvio R.L. and Filho, Guido L.S.}
}
@conference {594,
	title = {Group Maintenance Behaviors of Core and Peripherial Members of Free/Libre Open Source Software Teams},
	booktitle = {OSS2009: Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology },
	volume = {299/2009},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009///},
	pages = {298 - 309},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {26},
	abstract = {Group Maintenance is pro-social, discretionary, and relation-building behavior that occurs between members of groups in order to maintain reciprocal trust and cooperation. This paper considers how Free/libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) teams demonstrate such behaviors within the context of e-mail, as this is the primary medium through which such teams communicate. We compare group maintenance behaviors between both core and peripheral members of these groups, as well as behaviors between a group that remains producing software today and one which has since dissolved. Our findings indicate that negative politeness tactics (those which show respect for the autonomy of others) may be the most instrumental group maintenance behaviors that contribute to a FLOSS group{\textquoteright}s ability to survive and continue software production.
},
	issn = {978-3-642-02031-5},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_26},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Group\%20Maintenance\%20Behavior.pdf},
	author = {Scialdone, Michael and Li, Na and Robert Heckman and Kevin Crowston}
}
@article {GonzalezBarahona2008356,
	title = {Geographic origin of libre software developers},
	journal = {Information Economics and Policy},
	volume = {20},
	number = {4},
	year = {2008},
	note = {Empirical Issues in Open Source Software},
	pages = {356 - 363},
	abstract = {This paper examines the claim that libre (free, open source) software involves global development. The anecdotal evidence is that developers usually work in teams including individuals residing in many different geographical areas, time zones and even continents and that, as a whole, the libre software community is also diverse in terms of national origin. However, its exact composition is difficult to capture, since there are few records of the geographical location of developers. Past studies have been based on surveying a limited (and sometimes biased) sample and extrapolating that sample to the global distribution of developers. In this paper we present an alternate approach in which databases are analyzed to create traces of information from which the geographical origin of developers can be inferred. Applying this technique to the SourceForge users database and the mailing lists archives from several large projects, we have estimated the geographical origin of more than one million individuals who are closely related to the libre software development process. The paper concludes that the result is a good proxy for the actual distribution of libre software developers working on global projects.},
	keywords = {developers, email, email address, email archives, geography, mailing list, open source software, sourceforge, timezone, users},
	issn = {0167-6245},
	doi = {DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2008.07.001},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V8J-4T3DCPK-1/2/3981dfbc523eae1d1ce65fb1f0c0edb7},
	author = {Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles and Roberto Andradas-Izquierdo and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh}
}
@article {862,
	title = {Getting Clear About Communities in Open Innovation},
	journal = {Industry \& Innovation},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2008},
	month = {4/2008},
	pages = {223 - 231},
	author = {Joel West and Lakhani, Karim}
}
@proceedings {864,
	title = {Governance in Open Source Software Development Projects: Towards a Model for Network-Centric Edge Organizations},
	year = {2008},
	month = {07/2008},
	address = {Bellevue, WA},
	author = {Walt Scacchi and Chris Jensen}
}
@booklet {494,
	title = {Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on Socio-technical Dynamics in the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Social World},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Jan},
	abstract = {This special issue is the first volume in academia dedicated to a qualitative inquiry on dynamics in the FLOSS development and implementation, even if it is not alone in this endeavour (see e.g., Coleman, 2004; Kelty, 2005). Such a qualitative inquiry challenges the universally vocal and normative way of depicting FLOSS culture and practices (e.g., a homogeneous gift-giving and volunteering culture). The special issue encourages a practice-based and holistic view to exploring multiple cultures and practices in developing, localising, appropriating, and customising FLOSS. It also addresses the diversity in FLOSS communities through asking how seemingly global FLOSS cultures are translated into different contexts and locales. The importance of such an emphasis on how FLOSS technologies and practices diffract as they travel is nicely encapsulated by Haraway (1992) in her optic metaphor of white light that diffracts through a prism and becomes a rainbow. In light of this metaphor, a piece of FLOSS software is never really the same; when reproduced and shared, it is both the same (the standard) and something else in the mean time.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Guest_editorial_Lin\%26Risan.pdf},
	author = {Yu-wei Lin and Lars Risan}
}
@article {75,
	title = {Global and Temporal Analysis of Social Positions at SourceForge. net},
	journal = {Third International Conference on Open Source Systems, IFIP WG},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2007},
	author = {Christley, S. and Madey, G.}
}
@conference {642,
	title = {Guiding the Discovery of Open Source Software Processes with a Reference Model},
	booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing },
	volume = {234/2007},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007///},
	pages = {265 - 270},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {26},
	abstract = {This paper describes a reference model for open source software (OSS) processes and its application towards discovering such processes from OSS project artifacts. This reference model is the means to map evidence of an enacted process to a classification of agents, resources, tools, and activities that characterize the process.
},
	issn = {978-0-387-72485-0},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_26},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Guiding\%20the\%20Discovery.pdf},
	author = {Chris Jensen and Walt Scacchi}
}
@conference {Robles:2006:GLD:1137983.1138017,
	title = {Geographic location of developers at SourceForge},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories},
	series = {MSR {\textquoteright}06},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {144{\textendash}150},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {The development of libre (free/open source) software is usually performed by geographically distributed teams. Participation in most cases is voluntary, sometimes sporadic, and often not framed by a pre-defined management structure. This means that anybody can contribute, and in principle no national origin has advantages over others, except for the differences in availability and quality of Internet connections and language. However, differences in participation across regions do exist, although there are little studies about them. In this paper we present some data which can be the basis for some of those studies. We have taken the database of users registered at SourceForge, the largest libre software development web-based platform, and have inferred their geographical locations. For this, we have applied several techniques and heuristics on the available data (mainly e-mail addresses and time zones), which are presented and discussed in detail. The results show a snapshot of the regional distribution of SourceForge users, which may be a good proxy of the actual distribution of libre software developers. In addition, the methodology may be of interest for similar studies in other domains, when the available data is similar (as is the case of mailing lists related to software projects).},
	keywords = {distributed, email, email address, free software, geographical location, geography, libre software, mining software repositories, open source software, sourceforge, timezone},
	isbn = {1-59593-397-2},
	doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138017},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138017},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/144GeographicLocation.pdf},
	author = {Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona}
}
@conference {675,
	title = {A graphical installation system for the GNU/Linux Debian distribution},
	booktitle = {OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing },
	volume = {203/2006},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006///},
	pages = {337 - 338},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	abstract = {One of the main objectives of the Centro di Competenza sul Software Libero del Politecnico di Torino is to provide custom GNU/Linux distribution to the Public Administration, small and medium enterprise and schools. Debian GNU/Linux was choosen as the base for the custom distributions because of its strong support of free software and its long-standing technical merits: minimalist hardware requirement, the best available packaging system, support for 13 different architectures and a strict set of quality guidelines adopted by all the active Debian developers. The only foreseeable limitation, the Debian default text-based installer, was overriden by restarting the development of the then-abandoned Debian graphical installer. Now the new graphical installer is developed by tens of people and it will be included in the next official Debian release.
},
	issn = {978-0-387-34225-2},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_35},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/A\%20graphical\%20installation\%20system.pdf},
	author = {Attilio, Fiandrotti and Di Nunzio, Pierluigi and Di Gregorio, Federico and Meo, Angelo}
}
@article {49,
	title = {Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics},
	journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
	volume = {20},
	number = {2},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {185-214},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association},
	abstract = {This article investigates the social, technical, and legal affiliations among "geeks" (hackers, lawyers, activists, and IT entrepreneurs) on the Internet. The mode of association specific to this group is that of a "recursive public sphere" constituted by a shared imaginary of the technical and legal conditions of possibility for their own association. On the basis of fieldwork conducted in the United States, Europe, and India, I argue that geeks imagine their social existence and relations as much through technical practices (hacking, networking, and code writing) as through discursive argument (rights, identities, and relations). In addition, they consider a "right to tinker" a form of free speech that takes the form of creating, implementing, modifying, or using specific kinds of software (especially Free Software) rather than verbal discourse.},
	isbn = {08867356},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/3651533},
	author = {Christoper Kelty}
}
@article {flosswp208,
	title = {Gender issues in the FLOSS development},
	year = {2005},
	month = {March},
	abstract = {The FLOSS development is responding to the ICT development in various ways. This essay describes and analyses challenges (societal and organisational) and advantages (e.g. new models for mobile and collaborative work online), particularly regarding gender issues, encountered in the recent FLOSS development. The focus of the essay is not only on the claims made women in the existed FLOSS community about the tensions between male and female developers{\textquoteright} interests and ways of doings, but also on the current obstacles against bringing more women, who are not technically competent, to participate in the FLOSS development. This paper concludes with suggestions on how to create rules and resources and the creation of a common FLOSS space for both genders.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/lin3_gender.pdf},
	author = {Yu-wei Lin}
}
@article {flosswp178,
	title = {GlueTheos: Automating the Retrieval and Analysis of Data from Publicly Available Software Repositories},
	journal = {Proceedings of the 2004 international workshop on Mining software repositories  - MSR {\textquoteright}04},
	year = {2004},
	month = {05/2004},
	abstract = {For efficient, large scale data mining of publicly available information about libre (free, open source) software projects, automating the retrieval and analysis processes is a must. A system implementing such automation must have into account the many kinds of repositories with interesting information (each with its own structure and access methods), and the many kinds of analysis which can be applied to the retrieved data. In addition, such a system should be capable of interfacing and reusing as much existing software for both retrieving and analyzing data as possible. As a proof of concept of how that system could be, we started sometime ago to implement the GlueTheos system, featuring a modular,flexible architecture which has been already used in several of our studies of libre software projects. In this paper we show its structure, how it can be used, and how it can be extended.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/robles-barahona-ghosh_gluetheos.pdf},
	author = {Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Rishab Ayer Ghosh}
}
@conference {1482,
	title = {Group awareness in distributed software development},
	booktitle = {2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work  - CSCW {\textquoteright}04},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {72-81},
	publisher = {ACM Press},
	organization = {ACM Press},
	address = {New York, New York, USA},
	abstract = {Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce large, complex, and successful systems. However, there is still little known about how open-source teams manage their collaboration. In this paper we look at one aspect of this issue: how distributed developers maintain group awareness. We interviewed developers, read project communication, and looked at project artifacts from three successful open source projects. We found that distributed developers do need to maintain awareness of one another, and that they maintain both a general awareness of the entire team and more detailed knowledge of people that they plan to work with. Although there are several sources of information, this awareness is maintained primarily through text-based communication (mailing lists and chat systems). These textual channels have several characteristics that help to support the maintenance of awareness, as long as developers are committed to reading the lists and to making their project communication public.},
	keywords = {email, email archive, mailing list},
	isbn = {1581138105},
	doi = {10.1145/1031607.1031621},
	author = {Schneider, Kevin and Gutwin, Carl and Penner, Reagan}
}
@article {flosswp76,
	title = { Gift economies in the development of open source software: Anthropological reflections},
	journal = {RP Special Issue},
	year = {2003},
	month = {February},
	abstract = {Building on Eric Raymond?s work this article discusses the motivation and rewards that lead some software engineers to participate in the open source movement. It is suggested that software engineers in the open source movement may have sub-groupings which parallel kinship groups such as lineages. Within such groups gift giving is not necessarily or directly reciprocated, instead members work according to the ?axiom of kinship amity? ? direct economic calculation is not appropriate within the group. What Bourdieu calls ?symbolic capital? can be used to understand how people work in order to enhance the reputation (of themselves and their group).},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/rp-zeitlyn.pdf},
	author = {David Zeitlyn}
}
@article {flosswp77,
	title = {Guarding the Commons: How Community Managed Software Projects Protect Their Work},
	journal = {Research Policy},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2003},
	note = {"Data was collected from three primary sources: 1) observation at project and user group meetings, technical presentations and conferences; 2) informant interviews; and 3) project data archived on the Internet that detailed project interactions and structural developments."

"Project data was collected from online archives and included documents such as: mission statements, charters, bylaws, meeting minutes, and mailing list archives."},
	month = {February},
	pages = {1179-1198},
	edition = {7},
	abstract = {Theorists often speculate why open source and free software project contributors give their work away. Although contributors make their work publicly available, they do not forfeit their rights to it. Community managed software projects protect their work by using several legal and normative tactics, which should not be conflated with a disregard for or neglect of intellectual property rights. These tactics allow a project?s intellectual property to be publicly and freely available and yet, governable. Exploration of this seemingly contradictory state may provide new insight into governance models for the management of digital intellectual property.},
	keywords = {Common Pool Resources, email, email archives, intellectual property, mailing list, open source, Public Goods, Software, Survey},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/rp-omahony.pdf},
	author = {Siobhan O{\textquoteright}Mahony}
}
@article {flosswp110,
	title = {The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land},
	year = {2002},
	month = {September},
	abstract = {Imagine two network societies. In one society, the transfer of information and use of software is governed by the various licenses used to protect open code today. For convenience, we dub this society "Open Land". The other society recently passed a law identical to the new Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act ("UCITA", passed in two U.S. states and pending in several others) to control its information and computer software. We will call this society "UCITA Land". This paper looks at the ways in which Open Land and UCITA Land differ. Although it might initially seem that a licensing framework is trivial in terms of the actual conduct of society, we posit that such frameworks in many ways define the mode of governance of network society. The establishment of a market involves the development of a bundle of rights that both create property and define the rules under which property-based transactions might occur. In Open Land and UCITA Land, fundamentally different approaches to the establishment of those rights lead to vastly different societies.},
	author = {Serena Syme}
}
@book {flosswp72,
	title = {Government Policy Towards Open Source Software (Edited Book)},
	year = {2002},
	month = {December},
	abstract = {Can open source software?software that is usually available without charge and that individuals are free to modify?survive against the fierce competition of proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows? Should the government intervene on its behalf? This book addresses a host of issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development, government procurement policy, and patent and copyright policy. Contributors offer diverse perspectives on a phenomenon that has become a lightning rod for controversy in the field of information technology.},
	author = {Robert Hahn}
}
@article {flosswp51,
	title = {Government Preferences for Promoting Open-Source Software: A Solution in Search of a Problem},
	year = {2002},
	month = {April},
	abstract = {Governments around the world are making or considering efforts to promote open-source software at he expense of proprietary software. This article examines the economic basis for these kinds of government interventions in the market. The article discusses the industrial organization and performance of the proprietary software business and describes how the open-source movement produces and distributes software. It then surveys current government proposals and initiatives to support open-source software and examines whether there is a significant market failure that would justify such intervention in the software industry. The article concludes that there is no evidence of any significant market failures in the provision of commercial software and no evidence that the establishment of policy preferences in favor of open-source software on the part of governments would increase consumer welfare.},
	author = {Bernard Reddy}
}
@conference {Godfrey:2001:GES:602461.602482,
	title = {Growth, evolution, and structural change in open source software},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2001)},
	series = {IWPSE {\textquoteright}01},
	year = {2001},
	note = {"We measured [linux] system size in uncommented LOC"
"We also examined the growth of several other open source systems, including the VIM text editor, Eric Raymond{\textquoteright}s fetchmail utility, and the GCC compiler suite. "},
	pages = {103{\textendash}106},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Our recent work has addressed how and why software systems evolve over time, with a particular emphasis on software architecture and open source software systems [2, 3, 6]. In this position paper, we present a short summary of two recent projects. First, we have performed a case study on the evolution of the Linux kernel [3], as well as some other open source software (OSS) systems. We have found that several OSS systems appear not to obey some of "Lehman{\textquoteright}s laws" of software evolution [5, 7], and that Linux in particular is continuing to grow at a geometric rate. Currently, we are working on a detailed study of the evolution of one of the subsystems of the Linux kernel: the SCSI drivers subsystem. We have found that cloning, which is usually considered to be an indicator of lazy development and poor process, is quite common and is even considered to be a useful practice. Second, we are developing a tool called Beagle to aid software maintainers in understanding how large systems have changed over time. Beagle integrates data from various static analysis and metrics tools and provides a query engine as well as navigable visualizations. Of particular note, Beagle aims to provide help in modelling long term evolution of systems that have undergone architectural and structural change.},
	keywords = {agile methods, beagle, cloning, evolution, fetchmail, gcc, growth, kernel, lehman{\textquoteright}s laws, lines of code, linux, linux kernel, loc, open source software, software architecture, software evolution, source code, structural change, supporting environments, vim},
	isbn = {1-58113-508-4},
	doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/602461.602482},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/602461.602482},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/tu2001.pdf},
	author = {Michael Godfrey and Tu, Qiang}
}
@unpublished {flosswp377,
	title = {Game Theory and The Law: The Arbitration System},
	year = {1985},
	month = {January},
	abstract = {The paper refers to a game-theoretic analysis of the nature of legal arbitration, and the effects of prior negotiation. Also, it promotes the use of final-offer arbitration in labor disputes and in the event of an strike.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/TESIS_COMPLETA.pdf},
	author = {Guillermo Flores}
}
