Open Source

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: Moreno Muffatto

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Hardcover | 4 July 2006

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In recent years, the way open source software is developed has taken hold as a valid alternative to commercial proprietary methods, as have the products themselves, e.g., the Linux operating system, Apache web-server software, and Mozilla Firefox browser. But what is open source software? How is the open source community organized? What makes this new model successful? What effects has it had and might it have on the future of the IT industry, companies and government policies? These and many other questions are answered in this book.The first chapter gives a brief history of the open source community and the second chapter takes a close look at the relationship between intellectual property rights and software, both open source and proprietary. The next three chapters consider the who, the open source community, the how, software development both within and outside the community, and the what, open source projects and product quality. Chapters 6 and 7 focus on the different users of open source software: companies and governments respectively. These are followed by two chapters that interpret the phenomenon, first from an organizational point of view in Chapter 8 and then using the theory of complex adaptive systems in Chapter 9. The last chapter explores the current and potential applications of the concept underlying open source software in other fields.

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Preface	p. v
History of Open Source	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Age of Pioneers	p. 4
The Beginnings of the Open Source Movement	p. 6
Diffusion	p. 11
Institutionalization	p. 13
Recent Developments	p. 18
Software and Intellectual Property Rights	p. 23
What is Software?	p. 24
Why Do Intellectual Property Rights Exist?	p. 26
Types of IPR and How They are Applied to Software	p. 28
Categories of Software	p. 34
Copyright and Open Source Software Licenses	p. 39
Open Source Software and Patents	p. 45
The Organization of the Open Source Community	p. 49
"Who" is the Open Source Community?	p. 50
Demographics	p. 56
The Motivating Factors of Individuals and Organizations	p. 57
Motivations for individuals	p. 58
Motivations for organizations	p. 62
Motivations for society	p. 63
Organization of the Open Source Community	p. 64
Software Development Models	p. 71
The Software Development Process	p. 72
Software Development Process Models	p. 73
The Build and Fix Model	p. 73
The Waterfall Model	p. 74
The Iterative Development Model	p. 76
The Evolutionary Model	p. 77
The Prototyping Model	p. 78
The Spiral Model	p. 79
Classification and Comparison of the Models	p. 80
The Microsoft Model: Synch and Stabilize	p. 83
Comparison between Synch and Stabilize and the Open Source Software Development Process	p. 86
Open Source Products and Software Quality	p. 91
Open Source Software Projects	p. 91
Open Source Software Products	p. 95
Evaluating the Quality of Software	p. 99
Evaluating Software Quality: the Capability Maturity Model	p. 101
Evaluating Open Source Products	p. 105
Strategies and Business Models	p. 111
Evolution of the ICT Industry	p. 112
Increasing Returns and the Diffusion of Open Source Products	p. 118
Company Strategy Towards Open Source Software	p. 121
Can Open Source Software Lead to New Business Models?	p. 125
Government Policies Towards Open Source Software	p. 133
Factors in Favour of Governments Adopting Open Source Software	p. 133
Limiting Factors for the Adoption of Open Source Software	p. 137
What Role Should Governments Play in Supporting and/or Adopting Open Source Software?	p. 140
Government Policies Toward Open Source Software in Various Countries	p. 143
European countries	p. 144
Asian countries	p. 153
American countries	p. 157
New Trends in Work Organization	p. 163
Work Organization: The Open Source Community versus Commercial Companies	p. 163
Changes in Organizational Models	p. 167
Changes in the Way People Work	p. 173
Time and place	p. 174
Work autonomy	p. 176
Creativity, passion and quality of work	p. 178
Work ethic	p. 181
Towards New Organizational Models	p. 182
Impact on Social Capital	p. 186
Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System	p. 189
Complexity and Complex Systems	p. 189
What are Complex Adaptive Systems?	p. 192
The Key Processes in Complex Adaptive Systems	p. 193
Variation	p. 194
Interaction	p. 195
Selection	p. 197
Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System	p. 199
Developments	p. 207
Extension of the Concept of Openness	p. 208
Peer-to-peer production	p. 208
Open content	p. 209
Knowledge organization	p. 211
Knowledge diffusion	p. 211
Peer collection	p. 213
Peer accreditation	p. 215
Peer production	p. 217
Copyleft Applied to Non-Software Products	p. 219
Creative Commons	p. 221
Public Library of Science (PloS)	p. 224
Other projects	p. 225
Conclusions and Open Questions	p. 227
References	p. 231
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