Sustainability in Open Source Software Commons: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study of SourceForge Projects
Charles M. Schweik · Technology Innovation Management Review · 2013
IntroductionThis special issue of the TIM Review is devoted to questions surrounding the idea of “sustainability” in relation to open source software. The call for papers asked authors to connect some of Elinor Ostrom's work (1990; 2005; 2010) related to sustainability, collective action, and the commons and apply it to open source. Over the last seven years, my research team