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The success of open source, Steven Weber

Label
The success of open source
Title
The success of open source
Statement of responsibility
Steven Weber
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • "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."--Jacket
Additional physical form
Also issued online.
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1961-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Weber, Steve
Dewey number
005.3
Index
index present
LC call number
QA76.76.S46
LC item number
W43 2004
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Open source software
  • Logiciels libres
  • Open source software
  • Open broncode
  • Programmatuurtechniek
  • Economische aspecten
  • Politieke aspecten
  • Open Source
  • Softwareentwicklung
  • Softwaremarkt
  • Internet (impactos sociais)
  • Programas de código abierto para computadoras
Label
The success of open source, Steven Weber
Link
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy045/2003056916.html
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Property and the problem of software -- The early history of open source -- What is open source and how does it work? -- A maturing model of production -- Explaining open source : microfoundations -- Explaining open source : Macro-organization -- Business models and the law -- The code that changed th world?
Control code
ocm53287658
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 312 pages
Isbn
9780674018587
Lccn
2003056916
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
  • 9780674012929
  • 9780674018587
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o53287658
  • (OCoLC)53287658
Label
The success of open source, Steven Weber
Link
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy045/2003056916.html
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Property and the problem of software -- The early history of open source -- What is open source and how does it work? -- A maturing model of production -- Explaining open source : microfoundations -- Explaining open source : Macro-organization -- Business models and the law -- The code that changed th world?
Control code
ocm53287658
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 312 pages
Isbn
9780674018587
Lccn
2003056916
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
  • 9780674012929
  • 9780674018587
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o53287658
  • (OCoLC)53287658

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