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The Success Of Open Source
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Harvard Univ Pr
Publication date October 31, 2005
Pages 312
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780674018587
ISBN-10 0674018583
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Original list price $25.50
Other format details university press
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Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most sophisticated developments in computer technology, including, most notably, Linux and Apache, which pose a significant challenge to Microsoft in the marketplace. As Steven Weber discusses, open source's success in a highly competitive industry has subverted many assumptions about how businesses are run, and how intellectual products are created and protected.

Traditionally, intellectual property law has allowed companies to control knowledge and has guarded the rights of the innovator, at the expense of industry-wide cooperation. In turn, engineers of new software code are richly rewarded; but, as Weber shows, in spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can empower a more effective process for building intellectual products. In the case of Open Source, independent programmers--sometimes hundreds or thousands of them--make unpaid contributions to software that develops organically, through trial and error.

Weber argues that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles. The open source community is guided by standards, rules, decisionmaking procedures, and sanctioning mechanisms. Weber explains the political and economic dynamics of this mysterious but important market development.



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from Harvard Univ Pr (March 1, 2004)
9780674012929 | details & prices | 320 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Argues that while the success of open source code has generated many sophisticated developments in computer technology and subverted many assumptions of economic principles, its use is guided by standards and sanctioning mechanisms.
Paperback
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from Harvard Univ Pr (October 31, 2005)
9780674018587 | details & prices | 312 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $25.50
About: Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it.

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