Citation: Chandrasekar Subramaniam, Ravi Sen, Matthew L. Nelson Determinants of open source software project success: A longitudinal study.
DOI (original publisher): 10.1016/j.dss.2008.10.005
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Summary

Explore OSS project success in terms of developer interest, user interest, and project activity levels with longitudinal data from Sourceforge.net.

Time-invariant project characteristics in model:

OSS license type: expected more restrictive (strong copyleft) license to correlate with lower success; overall confirmed, but concentrated in projects targeting developers; sysadmins and end users show more interest in strong copyleft licensed projects
operating system: expected more success for projects targeting Unix/Linux; found more success for projects targeting Windows
programming language: expected more success for projects written in C and derivatives (C++, C#); confirmed

Time-dependent variables in model:

These are all confirmed, showing importance of network effects, except that user interest is correlated with lower project activity.

Determinants of open source software project success: A longitudinal study