Open Source : A Multidisciplinary Approach.
Title:
Open Source : A Multidisciplinary Approach.
Author:
Muffatto, Moreno.
ISBN:
9781860948916
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Series:
Series on Technology Management ; v.10
Series on Technology Management
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 History of Open Source -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Age of Pioneers -- 1.3 The Beginnings of the Open Source Movement -- 1.4 Diffusion -- 1.5 Institutionalization -- 1.6 Recent Developments -- Chapter 2 Software and Intellectual Property Rights -- 2.1 What is Software? -- 2.2 Why Do Intellectual Property Rights Exist? -- 2.3 Types of IPR and How They are Applied to Software -- 2.4 Categories of Software -- 2.5 Copyright and Open Source Software Licenses -- 2.6 Open Source Software and Patents -- Chapter 3 The Organization of the Open Source Community -- 3.1 "Who" is the Open Source Community? -- 3.2 Demographics -- 3.3 The Motivating Factors of Individuals and Organizations -- 3.3.1 Motivations for individuals -- 3.3.2 Motivations for organizations -- 3.3.3 Motivations for society -- 3.4 Organization of the Open Source Community -- Chapter 4 Software Development Models -- 4.1 The Software Development Process -- 4.2 Software Development Process Models -- 4.2.1 The Build and Fix Model -- 4.2.2 The Waterfall Model -- 4.2.3 The Iterative Development Model -- 4.2.4 The Evolutionary Model -- 4.2.5 The Prototyping Model -- 4.2.6 The Spiral Model -- 4.3 Classification and Comparison of the Models -- 4.4 The Microsoft Model: Synch and Stabilize -- 4.5 Comparison between Synch and Stabilize and the Open Source Software Development Process -- Chapter 5 Open Source Products and Software Quality -- 5.1 Open Source Software Projects -- 5.2 Open Source Software Products -- 5.3 Evaluating the Quality of Software -- 5.4 Evaluating Software Quality: the Capability Maturity Model -- 5.5 Evaluating Open Source Products -- Chapter 6 Strategies and Business Models -- 6.1 Evolution of the lCT Industry.
6.2 Increasing Returns and the Diffusion of Open Source Products -- 6.3 Company Strategy Towards Open Source Software -- 6.4 Can Open Source Software Lead to New Business Models? -- Chapter 7 Government Policies Towards Open Source Software -- 7.1 Factors in Favour of Governments Adopting Open Source Software -- 7.2 Limiting Factors for the Adoption of Open Source Software -- 7.3 What Role Should Governments Play in Supporting and/or Adopting Open Source Software? -- 7.4 Government Policies Toward Open Source Software in Various Countries -- 7.4.1 European countries -- 7.4.2 Asian countries -- 7.4.3 American countries -- Chapter 8 New Trends in Work Organization -- 8.1 Work Organization: The Open Source Community versus Commercial Companies -- 8.2 Changes in Organizational Models -- 8.3 Changes in the Way People Work -- 8.3.1 Time and place -- 8.3.2 Work autonomy -- 8.3.3 Creativity passion and quality of work -- 8.3.4 Work ethic -- 8.4 Towards New Organizational Models -- 8.5 Impact on Social Capital -- Chapter 9 Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System -- 9.1 Complexity and Complex Systems -- 9.2 What are Complex Adaptive Systems? -- 9.3 The Key Processes in Complex Adaptive Systems -- 9.3.1 Variation -- 9.3.2 Interaction -- 9.3.3 Selection -- 9.4 Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System -- Chapter 10 Developments -- 10.1 Extension of the Concept of Openness -- 10.1.1 Peer-to-peer production -- 10.1.2 Open content -- 10.1.3 Knowledge organization -- 10.1.4 Knowledge diffusion -- 10.1.5 Peer collection -- 10.1.6 Peer accreditation -- 10.1.7 Peer production -- 10.2 Copyleft Applied to Non-Software Products -- 10.2.1 Creative Commons -- 10.2.2 Public Library of Science (PloS) -- 10.2.3 Other projects -- 10.3 Conclusions and Open Questions -- References.
Abstract:
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. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: History of Open Source (189 KB). Contents: History of Open Source; Software and Intellectual Property Rights; The Organization of the Open Source Community; Software Development Models; Open Source Products and Software Quality; Strategies and Business Models; Government Policies Towards Open Source Software; New Trends in Work Organization; Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System; Developments. Readership: Postgraduate students, academicians and
practitioners in the field of technology management.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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