From: gorkem@gorkemcetin.com
Date: Fri 24 Dec 2004 - 01:15:47 EET
Merhaba
Linux ve acik yazilimlara yonelik 5 makale ve iki tez...
Iyi calismalar
Gorkem
----- Forwarded message from "Karim R. Lakhani" <lakhani@MIT.EDU> -----
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:37:20 -0500
From: "Karim R. Lakhani" <lakhani@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: karim.lakhani@sloan.mit.edu
Subject: [F/OSS-Community] 5 new papers and 2 new theses on opensource.mit.edu
To: community <community@opensource.mit.edu>
Dear Community,
Hope everyone is taking it easy for the Winter/Summer Holidays. Looks like we
might get a White X-mas in Boston. I have been a bit delayed with my update on
the website. Apologies to the patiently waiting authors :) - Any way here is
some brain food to enjoy for the holidays. Many thanks to all the authors for
the submissions. We are now approaching the 200 paper mark - and whoever
submits the 200th paper will get some MIT knick knacks! So hurry up and submit!
Have a great holiday!
Warmly,
Karim
Paper - 1
Authors:
Lerner, Josh & Jean Tirole
Title:
The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lernertirole3.pdf
Abstract:
This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We
highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to
an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of
the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as the open source
movement itself grows and evolves. At the same time, it is heartening to us how
much of open source activities can be understood within existing economic
frameworks, despite the presence of claims to the contrary. The labor and
industrial organization literatures provide lenses through which the structure
of open source projects, the role of contributors, and the movement's ongoing
evolution can be viewed.
Paper - 2
Authors:
Dalle, J.-M., P. A. David, Rishab A. Ghosh, & W. E. Steinmueller
Title:
Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/davidetal.pdf
Abstract:
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 involvement of
many people in this non-contractual and unremunerated productive activity. This
issue has been particularly prominent in economists' contributions to the
literature, and it reflects a view that widespread voluntary participation in
the creation of economically valuable goods that is to be distributed without
charge constitutes a significant behavioral anomaly. Undoubtedly, the
motivations of F/LOSS developers deserve to be studied more intensively, but not
because their behaviors are unique, or historically unprecedented. In this essay
we argue that other aspects of the "open source" phenomenon are just as
intriguing, if not more so, and possibly are also more consequential topics for
economic analysis. We describe the re-focusing and re-direction
of empirical and theoretical research in an integrated international project
(based at Stanford University/SIEPR) that aims at better understanding a set of
less widely discussed topics: the modes of organization, governance and
performance of F/LOSS development -- viewed as a collective distributed mode of
production.. We discuss of the significance of tackling those questions in order
to assess the potentialities of the "open source way of working" as a paradigm
for a broader class of knowledge and information-goods production, and conclude
with proposals for the trajectory of future research along that line.
Paper - 3
Berry, David M.
Title:
Internet Research: Privacy, Ethics and Alienation – An Open Source Approach
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/berry2.pdf
Abstract:
This paper examines some of the ethical problems involved in undertaking
Internet research and draws on historical accounts as well as contemporary
studies to offer an analysis of the issues raised. It argues that privacy is a
misleading and confusing concept to apply to the Internet, and that the concept
of non-alienation is more resourceful in addressing the many ethical issues
surrounding Internet research. Using this as a basis, the paper then
investigates the Free/Libre and Open Source research model and argues for the
principles of ‘open source ethics’ in researching the online world, which
includes a participatory and democratic research method.
Paper - 4
Berry, David M.
Title:
THE CONTESTATION OF CODE: A preliminary investigation into the discourse of the
free/libre and open source movements
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/berry1.pdf
Abstract:
This paper uses discourse analysis to examine the free/libre and open source
movements. It analyses how they fix elements within the order of discourse of
computer code production. It attempts to uncover the key signifiers in their
discourses and trace linkages between the sedimented discourses of wider
society. Using discourse theory and critical discourse analysis, the theoretical
foundations underpinning each of the movements are critically examined and the
effect on the wider developer and Internet community is discussed. Additionally,
this paper seeks to recommend discursive strategies that could be employed to
avoid the threat of colonization by neoliberal discourse and the consequent
challenge this has for the ideas of freedom, liberty and community within the
developer communities’ own discourses.
Paper - 5
Crowston, Kevin & James Howison
Title:
The social structure of Free and Open Source software development
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/crowstonhowison.pdf
Abstract:
Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization
of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary
development by emphasizing FLOSS’s distinctive social and communications
structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FLOSS
projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there
consistency across FLOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness
is important because practitioner-advocates from within the FLOSS community rely
on features of social structure to describe and account for some of the
advantages of FLOSS production. To address this question, we examined 120
project teams from SourceForge, representing a wide range of FLOSS project
types, for their communications centralization as revealed in the interactions
in the bug tracking system. We found that FLOSS development teams vary widely in
their communications centralization, from projects completely c
entered on one developer to projects that are highly decentralized and exhibit a
distributed pattern of conversation between developers and active users.
Thesis - 1
Author
Escher, Tobias
Title:
Political Motives of Developers for Collaboration on GNU/Linux
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/escher.pdf
Abstract:
This paper examines to what degree developers of the collaboratively produced
computer operating system GNU/Linux are politically motivated for their
contributions. It first states that software is politically relevant. It then
goes on to argue for the political significance of Free Software/Open Source
Software (FS/OSS) and discusses the developers ambivalent attitude towards a
politicisation of FS/OSS. Centrepiece is a survey carried out with 85 GNU/Linux
developers that showed that most of them are conscious of the social relevance
of FS/OSS and that their engagement is of a deliberately political nature.
Thesis - 2
Author:
Görling, Stefan
Title:
A critical approach to Open Source Software
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/gorling.pdf
Abstract:
The purpose of this masters' thesis was to discuss a number of assumptions
regarding the benefits of Open Source software projects. By studying what has
been written about Open Source combined with a number of own data collections,
this thesis argues that:
• Brooks law is still valid in Open Source projects
• Many Open Source projects are failures
• Open Source culture is a product of the 90s, not the 70s
• Open Source is no guarantee for reduced lock-in effects
• Our most famous Open Source projects are not built up by nerds working for
free, but professionals, employed by commercial companies to contribute to the
projects.
• Large Open Source projects are often hierarchical and bureaucratic
• Opening your source does not automatically lead to a large number of contributors
• Open Source breeds diversity, not a single winner
• Open Source projects often targets the community itself, rather than external
actors
• Companies benefiting from Open Source are often based on traditional business
models rather than revolutionary visions
• Open Source is not necessarily an efficient way to develop software
-- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu_______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@opensource.mit.edu http://opensource.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/community
----- End forwarded message -----
_______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@liste.linux.org.tr http://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux