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Open source : a multidisciplinary approach /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Series on technology management ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 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
- ch. 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
- ch. 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. 3.4. Organization of the open source community
- ch. 4. Software development models. 4.1. The software development process. 4.2. Software development process models. 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
- ch. 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
- ch. 6. Strategies and business models. 6.1. Evolution of the ICT 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?
- ch. 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
- ch. 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. 8.4. Towards new organizational models. 8.5. Impact on social capital
- ch. 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. 9.4. Open source as a complex adaptive system
- ch. 10. Developments. 10.1. Extension of the concept of openness. 10.2. Copyleft applied to non-software products. 10.3. Conclusions and open questions.