Paper Info
Title
Free/Open Source Software Adoption, Public Policies and Development Indicators: An International Comparison
Abstract
Despite the growing body of research on the inner workings of FOSS development, there are few studies on its relation with broader developments in society. In this study we have attempted a preliminary investigation of (1) how FOSS prevalence is related to economic and human development indicators of countries, (2) whether public policies regarding FOSS emerge in a consistent relation with these indicators in several clusters of countries constructed from the United Nation's human development index, and (3) the relation of software piracy to development indicators. Our results point to relative significance of non-economic factors in FOSS adoption, lack of consistent policies among public agencies, and irrelevance of non-economic factors on software piracy. In addition, the study demonstrates the possibility of developing FOSS indices for larger scale diagnosis and strategizing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_37
International Federation for Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
public policy,human development
Computer science,Knowledge management,Public policy,Software,Human Development Index,Human development (biology),Open source software,Marketing,Gross domestic product
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
234
1571-5736
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Harald Schmidbauer121.32
Mehmet Gençer272.10
Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu321.20