Early contributions to the academic literature on free/libre and open source software (F/LOSS) movements have been directed primarily at identifying the motivations that account for the sustained and often intensive...
...the international or global level. Yet globalization of rulemaking need not necessarily entail losing such safeguards: based on an extensive and detailed mapping of current administrative practice of global governance...
This article explores patterns and processes that emerge in free/open source software development (F/OSSD) projects. F/OSSD is a relatively new way of building and deploying large software systems on a...
...practices, production resources, technical regimes, and community practices in which they are embedded. This in turn may then help identify how the practice and principles of SE might be improved....
...draw that distinction – rather than, say, a focus on “inequity” or some other concept- that best upholds the incentive-creating goals of patent law while minimizing negative effects on competition....
...a classic example of “shooting at a moving target,” and some stakeholders’ interests and policy preferences are in flux. Indeed, there is fairly widespread uncertainty about how best to proceed,...
...value with open standards and open source software – a perception of value that vendors and service providers wish to borrow upon when they associate these phrases with their offerings....
The Open Source Definition is a bill of rights for the computer user. It defines certain rights that a software license must grant you to be certified as Open Source....
...open standards. Adobe is committed to open standards. Adobe publishes the complete PDF specification and makes it available for free, without restrictions, without royalties, to anyone who cares to use...