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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The Journal of the AIS (JAIS) recently published a 2 part special issue on Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). In the spirit of the open source movement, AIS and the JAIS publishers have kindly arranged for the 11 papers in the special issue to be <U>freely available to everyone</U> (normally AIS or institutional membership is required to view JAIS articles).<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Kevin Crowston and Michael Wade<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">JAIS FLOSS Special Issue Guest Editors<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/">http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/</A> <BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR><A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss12/">http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss12/</A> <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">JAIS Special Issue on Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software Part 1<BR>Volume 11, Issue 11 (2010)<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/7/">Editorial introduction</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Kevin Crowston and Michael Wade<BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">1. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/6/">A Comprehensive Review and Synthesis of Open Source Research</A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Altay Aksulu and Michael R. Wade<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>2. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/5/">Sustainability of Free/Libre Open Source Projects: A Longitudinal Study</A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indushobha Chengalur-Smith, Anna Sidorova, and Sherae L. Daniel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>3. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/4/"><FONT color=#0000ff>Following the Sun: Temporal Dispersion and Performance in Open Source Software Project Teams</FONT></A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jorge A. Colazo and Yulin Fang<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>4. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/3/"><FONT color=#0000ff>An Empirical Analysis of the Business Value of Open Source Infrastructure Technologies</FONT></A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indushobha Chengalur-Smith, Saggi Nevo, and Pindaro Demertzoglou<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>5. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/2/"><FONT color=#0000ff>Software Licenses in Context: The Challenge of Heterogeneously-Licensed Systems</FONT></A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thomas A. Alspaugh, Walt Scacchi, and Hazeline U. Asuncion<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>6. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss11/1/">The Process of Introducing FLOSS in the Public Administration: The Case of Venezuela</A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Edgar Maldonado<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">JAIS Special Issue on Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software Part 2<BR>Volume 11, Issue 12 (2010)<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Editorial introduction<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Kevin Crowston and Michael Wade<BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">1. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss12/5/">The Effects of Extrinsic Motivations and Satisfaction in Open Source Software Development</A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Weiling Ke and Ping Zhang<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>2. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss12/4/"><FONT color=#0000ff>Hierarchy, Laboratory and Collective: Unveiling Linux as Innovation, Machination and Constitution</FONT></A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tony Cornford, Maha Shaikh, and Claudio Ciborra<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>3. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss12/3/">Artifacts, Actors, and Interactions in the Cross-Project Coordination Practices of Open-Source Communities</A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cecil Eng Huang Chua and Adrian Yong Kwang Yeow<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>4. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss12/2/">Code Reuse in Open Source Software Development: Quantitative Evidence, Drivers, and Impediments</A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Manuel Sojer and Joachim Henkel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR>5. <A href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss12/1/">Characterizing the Dynamics of Open User Experience Design: The Cases of Firefox and OpenOffice.org</A><BR><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Paula M. Bach and John M. Carroll</SPAN></P></FONT></DIV>
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