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Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Author
Joseph Feller & Brian Fitzgerald & Scott A. Hissam & Karim R. Lakhani
Publisher / Label
The MIT Press
Country
USA
Language
English
Publication year
2007
Type of publication
Book
Number of pages
570
ISBN
9780262562270

Index

Foreword		xi	
Michael Cusumano
Acknowledgments		xv	
Introduction		xvii	
Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Hissam, and Karim R. Lakhani
I Motivation in Free/Open Source Software Development		1	
1 Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects
3	
Karim R. Lakhani and Robert G. Wolf
2 Understanding Free Software Developers: Findings from the FLOSS Study
23	
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
3 Economic Perspectives on Open Source
47	
Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
II The Evaluation of Free/Open Source Software Development		79	
4 Standing in Front of the Open Source Steamroller
81	
Robert L. Glass
5 Has Open Source Software a Future?
93	
Brian Fitzgerald
6 Open Source Software Development: Future or Fad?
107	
Srdjan Rusovan, Mark Lawford, and David Lorge Parnas
7 Attaining Robust Open Source Software
123	
Peter G. Neumann
8 Open and Closed Systems Are Equivalent (That Is, in an Ideal World)
127	
Ross Anderson
9 Making Lightning Strike Twice
143	
Charles B. Weinstock and Scott A. Hissam
III Free/Open Source Processes and Tools		161	
10 Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla
163	
Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, and James D. Herbsleb
11 Software Engineering Practices in the GNOME Project
211	
Daniel M. German
12 Incremental and Decentralized Integration in FreeBSD
227	
Niels JĀ°rgensen
13 Adopting Open Source Software Engineering (OSSE) Practices by Adopting OSSE Tools
245	
Jason Robbins
IV Free/Open Source Software Economic and Business Models		265	
14 Open Source Software Projects as "User Innovation Networks"
267	
Eric von Hippel
15 An Analysis of Open Source Business Models
279	
Sandeep Krishnamurthy
16 The Allocation of Software Development Resources in Open Source Production Mode
297	
Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul A. David
17 Shared Source: The Microsoft Perspective
239	
Jason Matusow
V Law, Community, and Society		247	
18 Open Code and Open Societies
249	
Lawrence Lessig
19 Legal Aspects of Free and Open Source Software
361	
David McGowan
20 Nonprofit Foundations and Their Role in Community-Firm Software Collaboration
393	
Siobhan O'Mahony
21 Free Science
415	
Christopher Kelty
22 High Noon at OS Corral: Duels and Shoot-Outs in Open Source Discourse
431	
Anna Maria Szczepanska, Magnus Bergquist, and Jan Ljungberg
23 Libre Software Policies at the European Level
447	
Phillipe Aigrain
24 The Open Source Paradigm Shift
461	
Tim O'Reilly
Epilogue: Open Source outside the Domain of Software		483	
Clay Shirky
References		489	
List of Contributors		513	
Index		525