The Success of Open Source

By S. Weber. 2004

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Preface 1. Property and the Problem of Software 2. The Early History of Open Source 3. What Is Open Source and How Does It Work? 4. A Maturing Model of Production 5. Explaining Open Source: Microfoundations 6. Explaining Open Source: Macro-Organization 7. Business Models and the Law 8. The Code That Changed the World? Notes Index

Subfields: Computer Science Applications

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Towards a characterization of crowdsourcing practices (2011, background): “FLOSS Software have various characteristics (Dalle and Jullien, 2003; Lerner and Tirole, 2002; Weber, 2004) among which the free access to source codes and the possibility to alter and share codes.”
From communities of practice to mycorrhizae (2013, methodology): “Uricchio (2004, p. 89) points out that “corporations are increasingly aware of the power of praticipatory culture and are incporporating elements of P2P culture in their own marketing.” Weber (2004, p. 234) adds that “as open source software becomes increasingly mainstream in corporate application”
Crowdsourcing: What can be Outsourced to the Crowd, and Why ? (2009, background): “Lerner and Tirole (2002) or Weber (2004) have shown that participation in Open Source”
Open Source Software User Communities: A Study of Participation in Linux User Groups (2006, methodology): “In OSS development and user groups, these take the form of a shared narrative (Weber 2004), a well-developed and repeatedly emphasized set of values and ideology (e.”
Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation (2017, positive): “This model of interaction was successfully developed in the open source software community of the 1990s (von Hippel, 2005; Weber, 2004), and is a way of fast-tracking innovation by drawing on a distributed community of knowledge.”
Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups (2007, background): “Research on contributions to Open Source Software has raised similar questions about why programmers donate their time (Lerner and Tirole 2002; Weber 2004).”
The impact of membership overlap on the survival of online communities (2013, methodology): “Weber [27] and Lerner and Tirole [17] use a cost-benefit framework for member motivation.”
Open Educational Resources (2010, neutral): “So far most of the focus has been on open source software communities (Weber, 2004), but Benkler’s (2005, 2006) analyses of “peer production” or community-based production of content and a number of articles on the Wikipedia phenomenon accord greater attention to voluntary”