The Success of Open Source

Steven Weber

  • 2004 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Computer and Information Science

Preface

1. Property and the Problem of Software

2. The Early History of Open Source

3. What Is Open Source and How Does It Work?

4. A Maturing Model of Production

5. Explaining Open Source: Microfoundations

6. Explaining Open Source: Macro-Organization

7. Business Models and the Law

8. The Code That Changed the World?

Notes

Index

  • Cover: The Success of Open Source

Steven Weber is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.