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Empirical issues in open source software

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posted on 2023-06-07, 23:01 authored by Jean Michel Dalle, Paul A David, Matthijs den Besten, Ed Steinmueller
This issue of Information Economics and Policy focuses on a fundamental shift in the software industry: the organisation of software production with the aim of disclosure rather than appropriation. Open source software, as it is now most frequently referred to in the academic literature, is simultaneously a means of production, social organisation, and, for many, a political or cultural statement.1 Open source software projects share a common commitment to the broad disclosure and dissemination of the source code for their collective productions. This commitment challenges the dominant existing model for software production in which the source code is proprietary and secret and the software product is only available as 'object' code available for sale and use but closed to inspection and modification. ...

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Information Economics and Policy

ISSN

0167-6245

Issue

4

Volume

20

Page range

301-304

Pages

4.0

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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