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Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary Fs/Oss Production and the Case of Debian Gnu/Linux
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The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But voluntary FS/OSS project organization is not hierarchical for the same reasons suggested by the most familiar theories of economic organization: hierarchy is justified for coordination of continuous change, rather than for the direction of static production. Hierarchy is ultimately the overhead attached to the benefits engendered by modular organization.
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“As shown in Figure 1, the Debian Constitution was a first attempt to define different roles (e.g. the DPL, the Technical Committee, and Developers) in a form of hierarchy within the Debian community (Garzarelli and Galoppini, 2003).”
From Transition of governance in a mature open software source community: Evidence from the Debian case (2008) · cites this paper as Garzarelli and Galoppini, 2003
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- Garzarelli, G., & Galoppini, R.
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- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003
- ISSN
- 1556-5068 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2161838944
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Industrial Organization (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Keywords
- free software, open source software, Debian GNU/Linux, modular organization, hierarchy, coordination costs, economic organization, software development
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