Company Participation in Open Source Software Communities: Measuring Sustainability
Niklas Vainio, Ville Oksanen, Tere Vadén · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2006
A framework for analysing the sustainability of a community in four dimensions – social, cultural, legal and economical – is presented. The framework is further differentiated by taking into account the different types of open source software communities, particularly with regard to their work ethics: voluntary or salary-based. In conclusion, the framework is tentatively applied to two communities, Debian and Eclipse.