Why Do Developers Adopt Open Source Software? Past, Present and Future
Free/Libre Open Source Software has evolved dramatically in the last twenty years and many open source products are now considered similar, or even better than proprietary counterparts. Given the evolution of software –both concerning its development and its usage– it is likely that the motivations for adopting an open source rather than a proprietary product have changed over time. The goal of this work is to identify the current motivations for adopting open source software, and compare them with the motivations that held in the past. We conducted a set of interviews among software practitioners, asking them to rank motivations for the adoption of open source software, and we compared these new results with the motivations elicited in previous surveys published in 2010 and 2013. The results show that motivations have actually changed over time.
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11:00 30mResearch paper | Why Do Developers Adopt Open Source Software? Past, Present and Future OSS 2019 Papers Valentina Lenarduzzi LUT University, Davide Tosi Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Luigi Lavazza Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Sandro Morasca Università degli Studi dell'Insubria | ||
11:30 30mResearch paper | What Attracts Newcomers to Onboard on OSS Projects? TL;DR:Popularity OSS 2019 Papers Felipe Fronchetti University of São Paulo, Brazil, Igor Wiese Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Gustavo Pinto UFPA, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University Pre-print | ||
12:00 30mResearch paper | Why Do People Give Up FLOSSing? A Study of Contributor Disengagement in Open Source OSS 2019 Papers Courtney Miller New College of Florida, David Widder Carnegie Mellon University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print |