As a registered member of SearchSoftwareQuality.com, you're entitled to a complimentary copy of Chapter 1 of The Economics of Open Source Software Development by Jürgen Bitzer and Philipp J. H. Schröder and published by Morgan Kaufmann, a division of Elsevier. Chapter 1 introduces the fundamentals of open source software, its nature, the central economic aspects and the key mechanisms of its development. Furthermore, this chapter presents the themes of the book and provides an overview of each chapter.
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Open Source Software (OSS) development appears to present a stark contrast to traditional production and innovation methods and an unlikely contestant in the marketplace. Some of the most striking features are that OSS development is based on contributions of volunteer programmers, that these programmers only associated with each other through informal communities, that the resulting software products are made available for free, and that this unconventional development method is able to produce software of high complexity and extraordinary quality.
Obviously, the emergence of software has fundamentally changed the software business. The simple facts
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Printed with permission from Elsevier Science. Copyright 2007. "The Economics of Open Source Software Development," edited by Jürgen Bitzer and Philipp J.H. Schröder. For more information about this title, please visit www.books.elsevier.com.
This was first published in August 2007
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