Working in Public¶
Eghbal, N. (2020). Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. Stripe Press.
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- Free Riding
- Many libraries collapse when maintainers burn out, revealing the free-riding problem: the good is non-excludable, but the production cost is borne by too few, a dynamic Eghbal (2020) documents in her ethnographic study of open-source maintenance economies.
This sourceAnalysis of open-source maintenance documenting the asymmetry between large user populations and small maintainer cohorts and resulting burnout; supports the open-source maintenance free-riding claim.
- Many libraries collapse when maintainers burn out, revealing the free-riding problem: the good is non-excludable, but the production cost is borne by too few, a dynamic Eghbal (2020) documents in her ethnographic study of open-source maintenance economies.
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