Open source software development: Some historical perspectives
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In this paper we suggest that historical studies of technology can help us to account for some, perplexing (at least for traditional economic reasoning) features of open source software development. When looked in historical perspective, open source software seems to be a particular case of what Robert Allen has termed “collective invention”. We explore the interpretive value of this historical parallel in detail, comparing open source software with two remarkable episodes of nineteenth century technical advances.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- First Monday
دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005