Publicação
Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
| Resumo: | This thesis identifies issues regarding the commercialization of open source software. Moreover, the largest open source software platform GitHub is scanned for recently created projects as some have the potential to be commercially successful. More than 15.000projectswere obtained and analyzed using regressions and simple machine learning models to determine variables that influence popularity. Additionally, projects created by individuals and organizations are compared. Furthermore, patterns of popularity growth of the most popular projects are shown. The results should provide valuable information for venture capitalists seeking for investment opportunities in the software market. |
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| Autores principais: | Taistra, Thomas Henryk |
| Assunto: | Venture capital Commercial open source software GitHub Popularity |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This thesis identifies issues regarding the commercialization of open source software. Moreover, the largest open source software platform GitHub is scanned for recently created projects as some have the potential to be commercially successful. More than 15.000projectswere obtained and analyzed using regressions and simple machine learning models to determine variables that influence popularity. Additionally, projects created by individuals and organizations are compared. Furthermore, patterns of popularity growth of the most popular projects are shown. The results should provide valuable information for venture capitalists seeking for investment opportunities in the software market. |
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