The Success of Open Source

✍ Steven Weber 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

The author takes a Political Economics perspective that raises two important questions about Open Source: 1) Why do people participate without traditional incentive mechanisms (coercion and money)? 2) How does a largely unstructured mass produce a useful output, without the benefit of traditional

📁 The Success of Open Source

✍ Steven Weber 📂 Library 📅 2004 🌐 English

Much 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 mo

The Success of Open Source

📁 The Success of Open Source

✍ Steven Weber 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

The author takes a Political Economics perspective that raises two important questions about Open Source: 1) Why do people participate without traditional incentive mechanisms (coercion and money)? 2) How does a largely unstructured mass produce a useful output, without the benefit of traditional

The Success of Open Source

📁 The Success of Open Source

✍ Steven Weber 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

<p>Weber argues that ensuring free distribution of code among computer programmers can create a more effective process for developing intellectual products. He suggests that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles and explains the political and economic dynamics

How to Open Source: Learn the Secrets of

📁 How to Open Source: Learn the Secrets of Successful Contributors

✍ Richard Schneeman 📂 Library 📅 2022 🌐 English

How to Open Source: Learn the Secrets of

📁 How to Open Source: Learn the Secrets of Successful Contributors

✍ Richard Schneeman 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Gumroad 🌐 English