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Papers by Ruben van Wendel de Joode

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking free, libre and open source software

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2006

This special issue includes seven articles that make significant contribution to the literature p... more This special issue includes seven articles that make significant contribution to the literature pertaining to knowledge and public policy around Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). Focusing on questions in two themes (i) motivation and organization and (ii) public policy, the articles in this volume develop new analytic models and report on new empirical findings, as an important step in bridging the wide gap that exists in public policy literature around FLOSS. Warning against rhetorical pitfalls that have been prevalent in FLOSS research, this introduction starts with a short history of FLOSS development, continues with a brief thematic literature review and review of the misconceptions surrounding FLOSS, and concludes with a first introduction of the articles that follow.

Research paper thumbnail of Managing Conflicts in Open Source Communities

Electronic Markets, 2004

... no significant evidence that supports the claim that conflicts were resolved because Linus To... more ... no significant evidence that supports the claim that conflicts were resolved because Linus Torvalds or the PMC got involved. Modularity Most open source software is extremely modular (eg Kogut and Metiu 2001; McKelvey 2001; Benkler 2002; Bonaccorsi and Rossi 2003). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Innovation in open source communities through processes of variation and selection

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2004

This article concerns the question how innovation is achieved in open source communities. Open so... more This article concerns the question how innovation is achieved in open source communities. Open source communities are collections of geographically distributed individuals, who volunteer or are paid to participate in the development of highly innovative software programs. These communities are argued to be self-organizing systems in which high levels of variation are achieved. Next, this article focuses on selection as

Research paper thumbnail of The Organization of Open Source Communities: Towards a Framework to Analyze the Relationship between Openness and Reliability

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006

A number of open source communities have been able to create surprisingly reliable software. The ... more A number of open source communities have been able to create surprisingly reliable software. The popular claims to explain how and why certain open source packages have managed to become reliable are primarily focused on the openness of the communities and the development process. This paper describes our ongoing efforts to build a framework and define a number of propositions

Research paper thumbnail of Open Source Communities -- Key Concepts and Definitions

Research paper thumbnail of The Strategy Finding Task Within Collaborative Networks, Based on an Exemplary Case of the Linux Community

Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Analyzing Firm Participation in Open Source Communities

Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives, 2007

Product or company names used in this set are for identifi cation purposes only. Inclusion of the... more Product or company names used in this set are for identifi cation purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Handbook of research on open source software : technological, economic and social perspectives / Kirk St.Amant and Brian Still, editors.

Research paper thumbnail of Standards and coordination in open source software

ESSDERC 2003. Proceedings of the 33rd European Solid-State Device Research - ESSDERC '03 (IEEE Cat. No. 03EX704), 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Software Development and Coordination Tools in Open Source Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Key Concepts and Definitions of Open Source Communities

... Ruben van Wendel de Joode Twynstra Gudde Consulting, The Netherlands Delft University of Tech... more ... Ruben van Wendel de Joode Twynstra Gudde Consulting, The Netherlands Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ... intention of an author, the terms free software (FS), open source software (OSS), free & open software (FOSS), and free, libre & open software (FLOSS ...

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Strategic Management in Collaborative Network Structures

Collaborative Networked Organizations, 2004

The following chapter outlines the nature of strategic management in a network context. It shows ... more The following chapter outlines the nature of strategic management in a network context. It shows that new pre-conditions and new perspectives have to be considered to fully understand network processes from a strategy perspective. Due to the multitude of interests Involved, the network’s co-evolution is considered to be essentially emergent, based on the results of dialogic processes. As a consequence

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking free, libre and open source software

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Potentials and Risks of Benchmarking

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The Triple Bottom Line and Impact Assessment: How Do TBL, Eia, Sia, Sea and Ems Relate to Each Other?

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 2004

Triple bottom line (TBL) reporting is a concept that is sweeping across the business sector, gove... more Triple bottom line (TBL) reporting is a concept that is sweeping across the business sector, government and NGOs. However, many of the issues faced by consideration of the social in TBL are very similar to issues faced by social impact assessment (SIA) in its connections with biophysical environmental impact assessment (EIA) and the financial considerations associated with projects including economic and fiscal impact assessment, and cost-benefit analysis. It would appear that the advocates of TBL and the institutions that have adopted ...

Research paper thumbnail of Standardization and Other Coordination Mechanisms in Open Source Software

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, 2000

Open Source Software (OSS) offers programmers the opportunity to elaborate and adapt source code.... more Open Source Software (OSS) offers programmers the opportunity to elaborate and adapt source code. It is an opportunity to diverge. We would therefore expect incompatible strains of software to develop, and consequently a demand for standardization to arise. However, this is only partly the case. In this paper we explore which other coordinative mechanisms are at work apart from committee standardization. We identify four other categories of coordinative mechanisms, and illustrate their relevance in OSS development. They complement committee standardization, can be used in standardization, and are sometimes an alternative to standardization.

Research paper thumbnail of MMBase: An open-source content management system

IBM Systems Journal, 2000

MMBase is an open-source content management system (CMS) with portal functionality, originally cr... more MMBase is an open-source content management system (CMS) with portal functionality, originally created by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. MMBase, which is particularly suited for multimedia environments, is based on the concept of presenting objects on different channels. The system is highly platform-independent and has adopted standards such as Javae, XML (Extensible Markup Language), J2EEe (Javae 2 Enterprise Edition) and

Research paper thumbnail of Handling variety: the tension between adaptability and interoperability of open source software

Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2005

Open source software (OSS) offers unprecedented opportunities to create variety. This could lead ... more Open source software (OSS) offers unprecedented opportunities to create variety. This could lead to incompatibility and fragmentation. To prevent this some form of coordination is needed. This paper explores which mechanisms of coordination are responsible for limiting divergence in OSS. Two cases are examined: Java and Linux.

Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the organization of open source communities with the CPR framework

International Association for the Study of Common …, 2004

Page 1. 1 Explaining the organization of open source communities with the CPR framework Ruben van... more Page 1. 1 Explaining the organization of open source communities with the CPR framework Ruben van Wendel de Joode ... (Ostrom, 1990, 1998, 1999) Examples of such communities are fishers who try to manage the scarcity in fishing grounds in Alanya, Turkey ...

Research paper thumbnail of Protecting the Virtual Commons; Self-organizing open source communities and innovative intellectual property regimes

Research paper thumbnail of Reliability Against the Odds: The Lessons of Open Source Communities for Developing Reliable Software

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Open source software is increasingly used in mission-critical processes of organizations, signali... more Open source software is increasingly used in mission-critical processes of organizations, signaling its acceptance as highly reliable software. That said, the development process in open source communities differs radically from conventional approaches to reliable software development. Stronger still, open source software seems to thrive under conditions of that are orthogonal to the conventional approach: extreme fragmentation, weak planning and coordination structures and lack of control over objectives, priorities and resource allocation. Therefore, we argue that open source communities provide us with valuable and innovative lessons for managing the production of reliable software -especially since the conditions for contemporary software development increasingly resemble those of open source communities rather than those of tightly controlled corporate environments. To draw out these lessons, this paper applies concepts from High Reliability Theory (HRT) on two recent case studies of open source communities, Linux and Apache. We identify a number of important reliability-enhancing mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms is important to a) managers of corporate software developers participating in open source communities and b) managers who want to transfer mechanisms and lessons from open source communities to their organization.

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking free, libre and open source software

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2006

This special issue includes seven articles that make significant contribution to the literature p... more This special issue includes seven articles that make significant contribution to the literature pertaining to knowledge and public policy around Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). Focusing on questions in two themes (i) motivation and organization and (ii) public policy, the articles in this volume develop new analytic models and report on new empirical findings, as an important step in bridging the wide gap that exists in public policy literature around FLOSS. Warning against rhetorical pitfalls that have been prevalent in FLOSS research, this introduction starts with a short history of FLOSS development, continues with a brief thematic literature review and review of the misconceptions surrounding FLOSS, and concludes with a first introduction of the articles that follow.

Research paper thumbnail of Managing Conflicts in Open Source Communities

Electronic Markets, 2004

... no significant evidence that supports the claim that conflicts were resolved because Linus To... more ... no significant evidence that supports the claim that conflicts were resolved because Linus Torvalds or the PMC got involved. Modularity Most open source software is extremely modular (eg Kogut and Metiu 2001; McKelvey 2001; Benkler 2002; Bonaccorsi and Rossi 2003). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Innovation in open source communities through processes of variation and selection

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2004

This article concerns the question how innovation is achieved in open source communities. Open so... more This article concerns the question how innovation is achieved in open source communities. Open source communities are collections of geographically distributed individuals, who volunteer or are paid to participate in the development of highly innovative software programs. These communities are argued to be self-organizing systems in which high levels of variation are achieved. Next, this article focuses on selection as

Research paper thumbnail of The Organization of Open Source Communities: Towards a Framework to Analyze the Relationship between Openness and Reliability

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006

A number of open source communities have been able to create surprisingly reliable software. The ... more A number of open source communities have been able to create surprisingly reliable software. The popular claims to explain how and why certain open source packages have managed to become reliable are primarily focused on the openness of the communities and the development process. This paper describes our ongoing efforts to build a framework and define a number of propositions

Research paper thumbnail of Open Source Communities -- Key Concepts and Definitions

Research paper thumbnail of The Strategy Finding Task Within Collaborative Networks, Based on an Exemplary Case of the Linux Community

Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Analyzing Firm Participation in Open Source Communities

Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives, 2007

Product or company names used in this set are for identifi cation purposes only. Inclusion of the... more Product or company names used in this set are for identifi cation purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Handbook of research on open source software : technological, economic and social perspectives / Kirk St.Amant and Brian Still, editors.

Research paper thumbnail of Standards and coordination in open source software

ESSDERC 2003. Proceedings of the 33rd European Solid-State Device Research - ESSDERC '03 (IEEE Cat. No. 03EX704), 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Software Development and Coordination Tools in Open Source Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Key Concepts and Definitions of Open Source Communities

... Ruben van Wendel de Joode Twynstra Gudde Consulting, The Netherlands Delft University of Tech... more ... Ruben van Wendel de Joode Twynstra Gudde Consulting, The Netherlands Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ... intention of an author, the terms free software (FS), open source software (OSS), free & open software (FOSS), and free, libre & open software (FLOSS ...

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Strategic Management in Collaborative Network Structures

Collaborative Networked Organizations, 2004

The following chapter outlines the nature of strategic management in a network context. It shows ... more The following chapter outlines the nature of strategic management in a network context. It shows that new pre-conditions and new perspectives have to be considered to fully understand network processes from a strategy perspective. Due to the multitude of interests Involved, the network’s co-evolution is considered to be essentially emergent, based on the results of dialogic processes. As a consequence

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking free, libre and open source software

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Potentials and Risks of Benchmarking

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The Triple Bottom Line and Impact Assessment: How Do TBL, Eia, Sia, Sea and Ems Relate to Each Other?

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 2004

Triple bottom line (TBL) reporting is a concept that is sweeping across the business sector, gove... more Triple bottom line (TBL) reporting is a concept that is sweeping across the business sector, government and NGOs. However, many of the issues faced by consideration of the social in TBL are very similar to issues faced by social impact assessment (SIA) in its connections with biophysical environmental impact assessment (EIA) and the financial considerations associated with projects including economic and fiscal impact assessment, and cost-benefit analysis. It would appear that the advocates of TBL and the institutions that have adopted ...

Research paper thumbnail of Standardization and Other Coordination Mechanisms in Open Source Software

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, 2000

Open Source Software (OSS) offers programmers the opportunity to elaborate and adapt source code.... more Open Source Software (OSS) offers programmers the opportunity to elaborate and adapt source code. It is an opportunity to diverge. We would therefore expect incompatible strains of software to develop, and consequently a demand for standardization to arise. However, this is only partly the case. In this paper we explore which other coordinative mechanisms are at work apart from committee standardization. We identify four other categories of coordinative mechanisms, and illustrate their relevance in OSS development. They complement committee standardization, can be used in standardization, and are sometimes an alternative to standardization.

Research paper thumbnail of MMBase: An open-source content management system

IBM Systems Journal, 2000

MMBase is an open-source content management system (CMS) with portal functionality, originally cr... more MMBase is an open-source content management system (CMS) with portal functionality, originally created by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. MMBase, which is particularly suited for multimedia environments, is based on the concept of presenting objects on different channels. The system is highly platform-independent and has adopted standards such as Javae, XML (Extensible Markup Language), J2EEe (Javae 2 Enterprise Edition) and

Research paper thumbnail of Handling variety: the tension between adaptability and interoperability of open source software

Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2005

Open source software (OSS) offers unprecedented opportunities to create variety. This could lead ... more Open source software (OSS) offers unprecedented opportunities to create variety. This could lead to incompatibility and fragmentation. To prevent this some form of coordination is needed. This paper explores which mechanisms of coordination are responsible for limiting divergence in OSS. Two cases are examined: Java and Linux.

Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the organization of open source communities with the CPR framework

International Association for the Study of Common …, 2004

Page 1. 1 Explaining the organization of open source communities with the CPR framework Ruben van... more Page 1. 1 Explaining the organization of open source communities with the CPR framework Ruben van Wendel de Joode ... (Ostrom, 1990, 1998, 1999) Examples of such communities are fishers who try to manage the scarcity in fishing grounds in Alanya, Turkey ...

Research paper thumbnail of Protecting the Virtual Commons; Self-organizing open source communities and innovative intellectual property regimes

Research paper thumbnail of Reliability Against the Odds: The Lessons of Open Source Communities for Developing Reliable Software

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Open source software is increasingly used in mission-critical processes of organizations, signali... more Open source software is increasingly used in mission-critical processes of organizations, signaling its acceptance as highly reliable software. That said, the development process in open source communities differs radically from conventional approaches to reliable software development. Stronger still, open source software seems to thrive under conditions of that are orthogonal to the conventional approach: extreme fragmentation, weak planning and coordination structures and lack of control over objectives, priorities and resource allocation. Therefore, we argue that open source communities provide us with valuable and innovative lessons for managing the production of reliable software -especially since the conditions for contemporary software development increasingly resemble those of open source communities rather than those of tightly controlled corporate environments. To draw out these lessons, this paper applies concepts from High Reliability Theory (HRT) on two recent case studies of open source communities, Linux and Apache. We identify a number of important reliability-enhancing mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms is important to a) managers of corporate software developers participating in open source communities and b) managers who want to transfer mechanisms and lessons from open source communities to their organization.