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