Public-private funding models in open source software development: A case study on scikit-learn

arXiv:2404.06484v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Governments are increasingly allocating funding for open source software (OSS) development in order to address concerns related to software security, digital sovereignty, and the competitiveness of domestic software markets, amongst others. While such funding is generally welcomed by OSS practitioners, how OSS developers perceive the relative benefits and drawbacks of governmental funding remains an open question. This paper explores this question through a case study on scikit-learn, a Python library for machine learning, whose funding …

abstract arxiv case case study concerns cs.ai cs.cy cs.lg cs.se development digital funding governments learn markets open source open source software oss public scikit scikit-learn security software software development software security study type