... AT&T General Electric Ghilarducci T Levy F Temin P United Auto Workers International Monetary Fund Nehru Pandit Jawaharlal import substitution industrialization ISI India socialism Drucker Peter F Ford Henry mass production open source software software Home Depot Lyft Meyer John W...

...This article explains the economics of open source (OS). It provides a selective survey and suggests what current issues of relevance to open source software (OSS) and OS platforms are, and what future research might investigate. OSS is software that is released under very specific licenses, which...

...This book explores how openness and the Internet promote innovation and the creation of economic value, citing the growth of the Web, Wikipedia, YouTube, and the open-source software (OSS) application Apache as examples. It examines why and how teams of software developers and users, collaborating...

...This chapter describes how open-source software (OSS) has changed over the past several years and uses the ecosystem metaphor to depict its current state. It then considers commons and the various institutions—business, governments, universities, nonprofit organizations, and scientific research...

...This chapter examines factors that influence the success of open-source software (OSS) projects, focusing on SourceForge.net (SF). It analyzes the 2006 data set of 107,747 SF projects; asks whether this data set captures any of the factors related to technology, community, and institutions...

...This chapter examines both the initiation and growth stages of open-source software (OSS) project development. It systematically reintroduces the hypotheses or research questions concerning the factors that determine OSS project success or abandonment and analyzes most of them using contingency...

...This chapter examines the factors that determine the success or abandonment of open-source software (OSS) commons using well-established statistical techniques. It employs five independent variables (software developers, tracker reports, page visits, forum posts, and Project Information Index...

...This study was motivated by the power of openness in combination with the Internet’s global reach and the potential of open-source software (OSS) to understand online collaboration. It looked at theoretical factors that might be important for success or abandonment of OSS projects, and examined...

...This chapter examines the importance of computer software, particularly open source software, in economic development. It analyzes how open source software fit into the framework of growth theory and explains that software’s reach extends far beyond the software industry. It also mentions that much...

...This chapter examines the origins and evolution of the open source software sector. It discusses the three distinct areas of open source development. These include the development of many of the key features of computer operating systems in the 1960s and 1970s, the formalization of rules...

...This chapter evaluates the hypothesis that open source software can potentially help promote technological innovation. It analyzes the potential to open source software solve the tension between the need to provide firms and individuals with the incentive to innovate and the desirability...

... explores how questions about how software copyright should be analysed legally, or how certain aspects of free and open source software licences would be found to operate, if put to the test via court or other challenges. It traces the history of copyright and open source software and considers...

... explores how revenue is generated in businesses based on open source licensed software. Open source may be many things, beyond its legal categorisation, but open source software is not of itself a business model nor was it ever intended to be one. Generating revenue and finding a suitable business model...

... discusses the Open Source Program Office (‘OSPO’). OSPO’s have become de rigeur through 2020 and many organisations wonder how they benefit from starting one — and, perhaps why they should invest in one, especially when they are already consuming open source software. The chapter considers...

... security social value supply chains Tirole J value Wallin M training governance incentives Linux Foundation open source software tragedy of the commons When I was in high school, my grade 11 economics teacher introduced my class to the principle of no free lunch. “There isn’t...

... integrate research on crowds and communities, identifying a third form—a crowd–community hybrid—that combines attributes of both. We compare examples of each of these three network forms, such as open source software communities, gated contests, crowdsourcing tournaments, user-generated content, and crowd...

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...’ as activity boundaries are blurred. It is argued that the use of Activity Theory overcomes some of these issues and its utility in an analysis of the production of the open source software, Drupal, is demonstrated, highlighting the potential for Activity Theory to enable cross-contextual comparisons...

...Learning how to get answers from data is an integral part of modern training in the natural, physical, social, and engineering sciences. One of the most exciting changes in data management and analysis during the last decade has been the growth of open source software. The open source statistics...

...This chapter looks at the open source software movement in the 1990s, which represented a rather sudden and dramatic transformation of dominant managerial principles in the high-tech industries. By 1998, companies such as Apple, IBM, and Netscape were investing heavily in open source software...