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9780415480420

Organization in Open Source Communities: At the Crossroads of the Gift and Market Economies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415480420

  • ISBN10:

    0415480426

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-08-25
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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 commercial involvement in F/OS. The analysis reveals the diversity and evolution of F/OS communities and their connections with other socio-economic networks and institutional practices. The insights afforded by the book have implications for future research and the design and implementation of open source efforts.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. vii
List of Tablesp. ix
List of Acronymsp. xi
Forewordp. xiii
Acknowledgmentsp. xvii
Introductionp. 1
Technologies of Communities and Peer Production: Disentangling Power Relations in FL/OSS Developmentp. 9
FL/OSS as an Object of Research: Methodological and Disciplinary Issuesp. 23
Commercial Involvement and FL/OSSp. 42
The Community, the Firm and the Two Economiesp. 59
Learning and the Division of Labour in FL/OSSp. 80
The Story So Far: Technologies of Communities and Peter Productionp. 101
Conclusionsp. 119
Notesp. 127
Bibliographyp. 133
Indexp. 141
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