some academic literature on OSS (Score 2, Informative)

http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php

Wegberg, M., Berens, P. (2000) Competing communities of users and developers of computer software: competition between open source software and commercial software, NIBOR working paper, NIBOR/RM/00/001, http://www-edocs.unimaas.nl/files/nib00001.pdf

Weber, S. (2000), The Political Economy of Open Source Software, BRIE Working Paper 140, E-conomy Project Working paper 15

Tuomi, I. (2001), Internet, Innovation, and Open Source; Actors in the Network, First Monday, volume 6, number 1, http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_1/tuomi/index .html

Moon, J.Y., Sproul, L. (2000), Essence of Distributed Work: The Case of the Linux kernel, First Monday, volume 5, number 11, http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_11/moon/index .html

Mockus, A., Fielding, R.T., Herbsleb, J. (2000), Case Study of Open Source Software Development: The Apache Server, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Limerick Ireland, June 5-7, pp. 263-272, http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/mockusapache.pdf

Lerner, J., Tirole, J. (2000), The Simple Economics of Open Source, Working Paper 7600, National Bureau Of Economic Research

Kuwabara, K. (2000), Linux: A bazaar at the edge of Chaos, http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_3/kuwabar a

Johnson, K. (2001), A Descriptive Process Model for Open-Source Software Development [DRAFT], http://sern.ucalgary.ca/students/theses/KimJohnson /thesis.htm

Arief, B., Gacek, C., Lawrie, T. (2001), Software Architectures and Open Source Software - Where can Research Leverage the Most?, Centre for Software Reliability, Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2001/ariefgaceklawrie .pdf

Blechermann, B. (1999), The cathedral versus the Bazaar (with apologies to Eric S. Raymond), An economic analysis and strategic look at Open-Source Software, http://www.ite.poly.edu/htmls/chapel_printable.htm