The label "open source" was created and adopted by a group of people in the free software movement at a strategy session held at Palo Alto, California, in reaction to Netscape's January 1998 announcement of a source-code … See more

Historically, researchers have characterized open source contributors as a centralized, onion-shaped group. The center of the onion … See more

With the growth and attention on the open-source movement, the reasons and motivations of programmers for creating code for free has been under investigation. In a paper from the … See more

Libraries are using open-source software to develop information as well as library services. The purpose of open source is to provide a software … See more

The open-source movement has faced a number of legal challenges. Companies that manage open-source products have some difficulty … See more

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) was instrumental in the formalization of the open-source movement. The OSI was founded by Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens in February 1998 with the purpose of providing general education and advocacy of the … See more

The vast majority of programmers in open-source communities are male. In a study for the European Union on free and open-source software communities, researchers found that only … See more