Organization in open source communities : at the crossroads of the gift and market economy / / Evangelia Berdou
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| Autore: |
Berdou Evangelia
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| Titolo: |
Organization in open source communities : at the crossroads of the gift and market economy / / Evangelia Berdou
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Open source software - Economic aspects |
| Open source software - Social aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acronyms; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Technologies of Communities and Peer Production: Disentangling Power Relations in FL/OSS Development; 3 FL/OSS as an Object of Research: Methodological and Disciplinary Issues; 4 Commercial Involvement and FL/OSS; 5 The Community, the Firm and the Two Economies; 6 Learning and the Division of Labour in FL/OSS; 7 The Story So Far: Technologies of Communities and Peer Production; 8 Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/OS community dynamics. These aspects are examined in the light of detailed case studies of the GNOME and KDE projects. This book offers an innovative theoretical framework, a critical assessment of various methodologies for examining the organisation of F/OS communities, and a typology of commercia |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Organization in open source communities |
| ISBN: | 1-136-97324-9 |
| 1-136-97325-7 | |
| 1-282-91332-8 | |
| 9786612913327 | |
| 0-203-85197-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459190403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; ; 15.