Authors : Matt Germonprez, Jonathan Lipps, Sean Goggins
Open source projects are transforming. Today, work within open source projects has come to be influenced by a growing set of companies and individuals who receive financial remuneration for their engagement.
As such, there is a central focus on commoditization and commercialization of open source products, which drives a trend towards a concealment of the various inner workings that produce these products.
Within this shift, the product becomes a central aim of open source project engagement, and the means of production becomes incidental.
In this paper, we explore the HCI research and design implications of the transformation of open source projects as part of commercial work and how we can come to better understand and protect the rising tide of open source projects.