Open Medicine (http://www.openmedicine.ca) is an electronic open access, peer-reviewed general medical journal that started publication in April 2007. The editors of Open Medicine have been exploring the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in constructing an efficient and sustainable publishing model that can be adopted by other journals. The goal of using FOSS is to minimize scarce fin...

The creativity, dynamism and high-profile success stories of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and FOSS for Geospatial applications (FOSS4G) movements are attracting increasing attention from end users, developers, businesses, governments, educators and researchers around the world (e.g. Weber 2004, Walli et al. 2005, CRM-Reviews 2006, Faber 2007). Free Software refers to liberty, not pr...

We are grateful to Nicolai Foss for his comment on our article.! Although we do not agree with his argument and consider it to be based on a fundamental misconception, his comment nevertheless raises an important point and gives us the opportunity to clarify our position on the role of institutions in the coordination of investment in a capitalist economy. Foss takes issue with our argument tha...

Philosophical, financial, practical, and pedagogical considerations have prompted educators to take a serious look at Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as an alternative to proprietary software. To better understand the overall concept of FOSS, this article provides a brief history of FOSS as well as a summary of its definition, philosophy, and major areas of research, including strengths an...

Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) methodology has revolutionized the entire cultural heritage documentation panorama since 2009. At same time, possibility of creating and managing HBIM projects by using open source solutions opened new research paths in 2016. Different reasons can drive utilisation free software (FOSS), however accessibility a tailor-made project should be main pur...

Due to their lack of physical interaction, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) participants form impressions of their teammates largely based on sociotechnical mechanisms including: code commits, code reviews, mailing-lists, and bug comments. These mechanisms may have different effects on peer impression formation. This paper describes a social network analysis of the WikiMedia project to dete...