Ho trovato estremamente interessante e completo questo librone del MIT:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item...=10477&ttype=2
Si tratta in sostanza di una raccolta di saggi su numerosi aspetti del software libero. Vi riporto l'indice:
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Foreword by Michael Cusumano xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
by Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Hissam, and Karim R. Lakhani
I Motivation in Free/Open Source Software Development 1
1 Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and
Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects 3
Karim R. Lakhani and Robert G. Wolf
2 Understanding Free Software Developers: Findings from the FLOSS
Study 23
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
3 Economic Perspectives on Open Source 47
Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
II The Evaluation of Free/Open Source Software Development 79
4 Standing in Front of the Open Source Steamroller 81
Robert L. Glass
5 Has Open Source Software a Future? 93
Brian Fitzgerald
6 Open Source Software Development: Future or Fad? 107
Srdjan Rusovan, Mark Lawford, and David Lorge Parnas
7 Attaining Robust Open Source Software 123
Peter G. Neumann
8 Open and Closed Systems Are Equivalent (That Is, in an Ideal
World) 127
Ross Anderson
9 Making Lightning Strike Twice 143
Charles B. Weinstock and Scott A. Hissam
III Free/Open Source Processes and Tools 161
10 Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache
and Mozilla 163
Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, and James D. Herbsleb
11 Software Engineering Practices in the GNOME Project 211
Daniel M. German
12 Incremental and Decentralized Integration in FreeBSD 227
Niels Jørgensen
13 Adopting Open Source Software Engineering (OSSE) Practices by
Adopting OSSE Tools 245
Jason Robbins
IV Free/Open Source Software Economic and Business Models 265
14 Open Source Software Projects as “User Innovation Networks” 267
Eric von Hippel
15 An Analysis of Open Source Business Models 279
Sandeep Krishnamurthy
16 The Allocation of Software Development Resources in Open Source
Production Mode 297
Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul A. David
17 Shared Source: The Microsoft Perspective
Jason Matusow
V Law, Community, and Society
18 Open Code and Open Societies
Lawrence Lessig
19 Legal Aspects of Free and Open Source Software 361
David McGowan
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20 Nonprofit Foundations and Their Role in Community-Firm Software
Collaboration 393
Siobhan O’Mahony
21 Free Science 415
Christopher Kelty
22 High Noon at OS Corral: Duels and Shoot-Outs in Open Source
Discourse 431
Anna Maria Szczepanska, Magnus Bergquist, and Jan Ljungberg
23 Libre Software Policies at the European Level 447
Phillipe Aigrain
24 The Open Source Paradigm Shift 461
Tim O’Reilly
Epilogue: Open Source outside the Domain of Software 483
Clay Shirky
Si può scaricare liberamente o in alternativa si può acquistare online, anche in Italia:
http://tinyurl.com/2yocjz