"How Is Open Source Special?"

"How Is Open Source Special?"

by Gunther Dippe -
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EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 2 (March/April 2005): 72–73.
http://www.educause.edu/er/erm05/erm05210.asp
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Re: "How Is Open Source Special?"

by Martín Langhoff -
I have some to add here smile

Arguably the best economic theoricist studying FOSS is Yochai Benkler. His papers are widerly read, really interesting, and all available on the internet:

http://www.benkler.org/


And about the culture of those crazy FOSS developers, there's a lot of anthropologists interested in us. Biella Coleman is one of the leading lights on this front, lecturing at the Uni of Chicago:

http://www.healthhacker.com/biella/

her work is also available online. Amazing.