Message 01302 [Homepage] [Navigation]
Thread: oxenT01302 Message: 1/4 L0 [In index]
[First in Thread] [Last in Thread] [Date Next] [Date Prev]
[Next in Thread] [Prev in Thread] [Next Thread] [Prev Thread]

[ox-en] The Simple Economics of Open Source by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole



Hi

Has anyone read this:

  THE SIMPLE ECONOMICS OF OPEN SOURCE

  Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

  There has been a recent surge of interest in open source
  software development, which involves developers at many
  different locations and organizations sharing code to
  develop and refine programs. To an economist, the
  behavior of individual programmers and commercial
  companies engaged in open source projects is initially
  startling. This paper makes a preliminary exploration of
  the economics of open source software. We highlight the
  extent to which labor economics, especially the
  literature on "career concerns," can explain many of
  these projects’ features. Aspects of the future of open
  source development process, however, remain somewhat
  difficult to predict with "off-the-shelf" economic
  models.

  http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/abstracts/9900/00-059.html

It is only available as a PDF file as far as I can work
out...

Also another two document that I haven't read yet that
look interesting:

  The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software
  and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism
  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/13.3truscello.html

  Scientific Instrument Making, Epistemology and the
  Conflict between Gift and Commodity Economies
  http://www.cla.sc.edu/Phil/faculty/baird/giftf.htm

Chris

--
http://chris.croome.net/

_______________________
http://www.oekonux.org/



Thread: oxenT01302 Message: 1/4 L0 [In index]
Message 01302 [Homepage] [Navigation]