Case study of company's relationship with open source community in open source software development
Juho Lindman, Topi Uitto · 2008
Open Source Software (OSS) development success in business context is determined by the relationship between the developer community and the benefiting company. The purpose of this case study is to examine this relationship. We review extant literature on the OSS development, characteristics of the OSS communities and OSS development, moving on to the business rationales of a companies engaging in OSS development. We construct a framework for analyzing a company-community relationship and test our framework with data from semi-structured interviews of corporate representatives who have worked closely with open source software development. As a result, we propose a framework for analyzing company-community relationship in the OSS development context.