Tags: research + freesoftware (33)

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  1. Looks like a pretty seamless way to extract the text of news documents. Looks very simple and pretty easy.
  2. Includes both funded and unfunded proposals. I like the idea of keeping this online.
  3. Contains a Java based tool that turns dumps into a database and index and then an API for querying.
  4. Another cool looking tool from The King.
  5. A bloggy lit review on the economics of FOSS.
  6. "The model aimed to rationalize several puzzles observed in the industry, such as why Red Hat, a high-quality firm, contributes significantly more to Linux than any other firm and why a market with mandatory sharing can actually produce higher-quality products than a proprietary market."
  7. My friend Joseph Reagle is working on what seems like an interesting research project on sexisim in free software and free culture communities.
  8. Zotero is breaking lose of Firefox. Awesome. I'm also glad to see that news of the Mellon Foundation's mellowing on funding free software were overrated.
  9. I agree with all of this except the suggestion that Torvalds is responsible for it. He popularized this model of development, but he didn't invent it.
  10. Community forks MySQL, cleans stuff up.
  11. A good, free, QDA tool is very exciting!
  12. Three kinds of openness.
    updated: 2011-11-08, original: 2009-11-08 to , , , , , , by mako - Archived Link
  13. I'll bet that FOSS experience does increases one's job prospects. Sounds like a great empirical project!
  14. Looks awesome!
  15. "As a part of the 2008 run of the National Software Industry Survey, a special study of open source software is conducted. The purpose of this study is to estimate the (1) degree of adoption and (2) the amount of production of open source software in the Finnish software product industry."
  16. "The definitive collection of research into Open Source software"

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