Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Analyzes a number of key topics behind Free and Open Source Software revolution: the motivation, the objective, the processes and tools, the economic and business models, and legal, cultural, and social issues.

Publication date: 01 Mar 2007

ISBN-10: 0262562278

ISBN-13: n/a

Paperback: 570 pages

Views: 16,198

Type: Book

Publisher: The MIT Press

License: n/a

Post time: 05 Oct 2007 02:00:19

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software Analyzes a number of key topics behind Free and Open Source Software revolution: the motivation, the objective, the processes and tools, the economic and business models, and legal, cultural, and social issues.
Tag(s): Software Libre and Open Source
Publication date: 01 Mar 2007
ISBN-10: 0262562278
ISBN-13: n/a
Paperback: 570 pages
Views: 16,198
Document Type: Book
Publisher: The MIT Press
License: n/a
Post time: 05 Oct 2007 02:00:19
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Joseph Feller wrote:© 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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What is the status of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) revolution? Has the creation of software that can be freely used, modified, and redistributed transformed industry and society, as some predicted, or is this transformation still a work in progress? Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software brings together leading analysts and researchers to address this question, examining specific aspects of F/OSS in a way that is both scientifically rigorous and highly relevant to real-life managerial and technical concerns.

The book analyzes a number of key topics: the motivation behind F/OSS -- why highly skilled software developers devote large amounts of time to the creation of "free" products and services; the objective, empirically grounded evaluation of software -- necessary to counter what one chapter author calls the "steamroller" of F/OSS hype; the software engineering processes and tools used in specific projects, including Apache, GNOME, and Mozilla; the economic and business models that reflect the changing relationships between users and firms, technical communities and firms, and between competitors; and legal, cultural, and social issues, including one contribution that suggests parallels between "open code" and "open society" and another that points to the need for understanding the movement's social causes and consequences.

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:) "The book can help you dial down the hype. Yet, ultimately, it offers a broadly positive affirmation of the movement. There is shown to be no impediment or logical flaw to cause open source to not stop growing. Rather, the book suggests that both proprietary and open source software will always be with us, albeit in a sometimes uneasy coexistence."
 




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