...This chapter examines how users of open source software make the decision between open code and proprietary software. It provides insights into the structure of demand for software and how it relates to the characteristics of users and their perceptions about various costs associated with adopting...

...This chapter focuses on government policies on computer software. It examines how a government can develop a framework that facilitates the competitive interactions between open source and proprietary software in a manner that boosts efficiency and innovation. It analyzes arguments for why...

...In the early twenty-first century, economists were baffled by the volunteer nature of open-source software (OSS) and why OSS developers would give their intellectual property away. This chapter focuses on OSS developers, describes who they are and where they live, and examines the reasons...

...This chapter discusses technological attributes, which refer to a set of variables related to the open-source software (OSS) itself or the technological infrastructure required to coordinate an OSS team, and community attributes, which refer to a set of variables linked to the relationships among...

...This chapter presents a case study of the Open-Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), a nonprofit organization involved in the development of open-source software (OSS) geographic information systems (GIS). It traces the history of OSGeo, including its finances and assets, and discusses the results...

...This chapter examines the factors that determine the success or abandonment of open-source software (OSS) projects, focusing on the hosting web site SourceForge.net. It describes a theoretical classification system for OSS commons, and presents the results of eight interviews with OSS developers...

...The Survey on Free/Libre and Open-Source Success, conducted in fall 2009 in collaboration with SourceForge Inc., the corporation that owns SourceForge.net (SF), sought to identify the factors which determine the success or abandonment of open-source software (OSS) projects...

...This book has investigated the factors that lead some open-source software (OSS) commons to continued success and others to abandonment using data sets on SourceForge.net. By identifying these factors, it hoped to better explain not only OSS commons but also the power of openness, collaboration...

... and the role of professional ethicists to explorations of what can be learned from society’s experience with other biotechnologies and the open-source software movement....

... topsoil Stints stinting Cree Hannibal Paci Christopher Netting Robert Ojibwe Thompson E P Törbel Archaeology Conservation Cronon William Digital library of the commons England New England Open source software Town commons Usufruct Lohmann Larry United Kingdom Bolivia...

...This chapter, which examines the role of competition between host and source countries in determining tax-transfer and migration policies, states that in a basic tax-competition model, competition leads to the downward trend in tax-transfer due to certain mutually agreed-upon factors. It assigns...

...This chapter considers various issues that may have more impact on interoperability in the future. These include open-source software, software patents and statutory requirements. This chapter explains that while copyright law has evolved in a manner that prevents its use to exercise control...

...The φ-feature values of a given non-expletive pronominal is expected to match the φ-feature values of some single determiner phrase with which it agrees. The matching would be with the values of a single source, but this assumed state of affairs, dubbed source uniqueness, is in no sense logically...

...This chapter explores the determinants of terrorism in source and target countries using a dyadic approach akin to the gravity model of empirical international trade. It examines the effects of globalization and governance on the net supply of terrorism across countries and analyzes the bilateral...

...Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open...

...This chapter describes how open source is currently being explored in biological research. It addresses how open biological standards are being used in engineered biology, how openness might play a role in global bioeconomics and biosecurity, and how open-source biology communities could organize...

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... Free software Keurig Barbie Barrett Brian Facebook ToyTalk Kidizoom Privacy VTech Leibrand Scott Lewis Dana Sandler Karen Cheney Dick Crawford Kate Fitbit Internet of Things IoT Smart devices Networked devices Jailbreaking Open source Software Right to repair John Deere Keurig...

...This chapter focuses on a novel conception of pronominal agreement that provides the basis for the agreement determined in several imposter and camouflage constructions. The traditional view implies that pronominal agreement is based on the relation between a pair of elements, source and pronominal...

.... The book has also focused on the importance of logos and source code in the development of software as new media of creation and storage of information. It has furthermore explored the extent to which computers have established the foundation for the development and implementation of neoliberal...