Reusing Open Source Code Value Creation and Value Appropriation Pers
The reuse of existing code through their software developers is critical for firms to ensure efficient development of high-quality software. A recent facet of this topic is the increasing importance of reusing open source code which is often available fre
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GABLER RESEARCH Innovation und Entrepreneurship Herausgegeben von Professor Dr. Nikolaus Franke, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Professor Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Universität München, und Professor Dr. Joachim Henkel, Technische Universität München
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Manuel Sojer
Reusing Open Source Code Value Creation and Value Appropriation Perspectives on Knowledge Reuse With a Foreword by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joachim Henkel
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Dissertation Technische Universität München, 2010
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Preface Over the past decade, open source software (OSS) has attracted enormous interest from practitioners and academics alike. However, the focus of research on OSS is mostly on individuals’ and firms’ contributions to public OSS projects. In contrast, the receiving side of this open and collaborative development process has been given much less attention, despite indications that the reuse of OSS code is of high importance in the development of both OSS and of proprietary software. Questions regarding quantity, motivation, and drivers of OSS code reuse have been studied only by few authors, and in no case quantitatively. In particular, the role of individual programmers in the context of “ad hoc” code reuse and concomitant legal risks are largely unexplored. Manuel Sojer addresses the above issues in this ground-breaking book. After developing the theoretical foundations of his work, he presents two large-scale empirical studies on the reuse of publicly available OSS code. Both studies are based on carefully constructed models that draw on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Focusing on the amount of code reuse that programmers practice in public OSS projects, the first surve
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