Recording Venue: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich
Guest: Georg von Krogh
Open source development has had a major impact on both private and public development and use of software. This is an interview with one of the key researchers on open source development, Professor Georg von Krogh of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. The interview focuses on the current state of open source development, characteristics of successful open source projects, what management science can learn from the open source community, what motivates open source developers, and research questions related to open source development.