The open-source movement is becoming an overarching feature of knowledgecreating environments and this research investigates the mechanisms whereby such a model comes into existence. Far from being the result of...
This paper discusses the tensions between open source communities and proprietary software development and identifies a number of innovative regimes that should deal with these tensions.
...in particular highlighting how the decision is shaped not just by the preferences of the licensor itself, but also by that of the community of developers. The paper then presents...
...way. This paper examines several cases where designers have attempted to influence the use of technology through one of these mechanisms. Such cases include key recovery encryption, Pegasus Mail, Platform...
This paper analyzes the effect of the development cost on an open source software enhancement that is developed by individual programmers in an Internet community. It considers a situation in...
The open source software development concept can seem radical and revolutionary until one compares it to familiar processes such as academic scholarship, legislation and the court system, each of which...
...by the vast patent portfolios of multinational corporations. Unless a greater effort is made to adopt royalty free standards, the result may be a future filled with international standards wars....
...that standardization — at least early standardization — leads to a free riding problem, and thus to a significant decrease in marginal incentives for R&D investment. For this reason, competing...
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has examined the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) rules, which go into effect today, governing Software Defined Radio (SDR) devices and concluded that the rules...
...perspectives on the study of semicommons in the history of real property, this Article con-templates the substitutability of free and open source software (“FOSS”) for traditional standard-setting approaches. Standards are...