The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community
Siobhán O'Mahony,Fabrizio Ferraro — The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community (2007)Siobhán O'Mahony; Fabrizio Ferraro · 2007 · Article · abstractTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0520 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Debian Project constitution · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“In their study of Debian, O'Mahony and Ferraro found that members developed a shared basis of formal authority but limited it with democratic mechanisms; the conception of authority they eventually settled on was more expansive than their original design.”
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