Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?

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Autor(a) principal: Taistra, Thomas Henryk
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/106047
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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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
title Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
spellingShingle Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
Taistra, Thomas Henryk
Venture capital
Commercial open source software
GitHub
Popularity
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
title_full Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
title_fullStr Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
title_full_unstemmed Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
title_sort Commercial open source software companies: what drives the popularity of open source projects?
author Taistra, Thomas Henryk
author_facet Taistra, Thomas Henryk
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Queiró, Francisco
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Taistra, Thomas Henryk
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Venture capital
Commercial open source software
GitHub
Popularity
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Venture capital
Commercial open source software
GitHub
Popularity
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description 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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