Open source [[electronic resource] ] : a multidisciplinary approach / / Moreno Muffatto

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777494203321
• Autore: Muffatto Moreno
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Imperial College Press; Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : Distributed by World Scientific, c2006
• ISBN: 1-86094-891-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Collana: Series on technology management ; ; v. 10
• Disciplina: 005.3
• Soggetti: Open source software
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245).
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 sourc