LEADER 03944nam 22006734a 450 001 9910959593203321 005 20250115100344.0 010 $a9780674044999 010 $a0674044991 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674044999 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805569 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000253338 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12095658 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253338 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186733 035 $a(PQKB)10325301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487729 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11328780 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487729 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10446424 035 $a(PQKB)11461628 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300611 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300611 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328787 035 $a(OCoLC)923112370 035 $a(DE-B1597)571819 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674044999 035 $a(OCoLC)1294425116 035 $a(Perlego)1147853 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805569 100 $a20031016d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe success of open source /$fSteven Weber 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $aviii, 312 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780674012929 311 08$a0674012925 311 08$a9780674018587 311 08$a0674018583 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1 Property and the Problem of Software --$t2 The Early History of Open Source --$t3 What Is Open Source and How Does It Work? --$t4 A Maturing Model of Production --$t5 Explaining Open Source: Microfoundations --$t6 Explaining Open Source: Macro-Organization --$t7 Business Models and the Law --$t8 The Code That Changed the World? --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aMuch 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. 606 $aOpen source software 615 0$aOpen source software. 676 $a005.3 700 $aWeber$b Steve$f1961-$0552788 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959593203321 996 $aThe success of open source$94354866 997 $aUNINA