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From: seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org (Seth Johnson)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:23:30 -0500
Subject: [Patents] New Papers at OS Community
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:58:46 -0500
From: "Karim R. Lakhani" <lakhani@MIT.EDU>


Hi All,

I have updated the site with the following papers and an
abstract.

Take care,

Karim


1) Jordan, John

May 2001

Detecting Dominant Design

M. A.Sc. Thesis (987 KB)

This paper derives a framework for the emergence of a
dominant design in the web server market. Particular
attention is given to factors important in network- based
economies including network effects, standards,
complimentary assets and technological change. A complete
examination of the web server industry from its origins in
the Internet through to today's market dominated by the
products of open-source and proprietary software provides
interesting insights into the application of the emergence
framework.

University of Waterloo (Alcatel)

2) Kelty, Chris

December 2001

Free Software/ Free Science

full paper (link)

This paper explores the comparison often made between Free
Software and scientific research, and the tendency to
discuss both endeavors by positing a role for reputation as
the currency of value. It discusses a handful of examples
from the history and social study of science to explain how
scholars have approached similar issues in understanding
scientific activity. It also offers some speculations on the
relationship between the metaphorical currency of reputation
and real money, and that between metaphorical and actual
intellectual property.

Rice University


3) Lancahire, David

December 2001

Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source
Development

full paper (link)

The nexus of open source development appears to have shifted
to Europe over the last ten years. This paper explains why
this trend undermines cultural arguments about "hacker
ethics" and "post-scarcity" gift economies. It suggests that
classical economic theory offers a more succinct explanation
for the peculiar international distribution of open source
development: hacking rises and falls inversely to its
opportunity cost. This finding throws doubt on the
Schumpeterian assumption that the efficiency of industrial
systems can be measured without reference to the social
institutions that bind them.

UC Berkeley

4) Wendel de Joode, Ruben van & Jeroen Kemp

September 2001

The Strategy Finding Task Within Collaborative Networks,
Based on an Exemplary Case of the Linux Community 

abstract (28 KB)

This article will focus on how the strategy-finding task is
performed within virtual organisations in general and in the
open source community of Linux in particular. This article
will demonstrate that one of the reasons for the success of
Linux is the way the strategic finding task is fulfilled in
this community.The point to be shown in this paper is the
self-organising power and apparent success of emergent
('bottom up') strategy finding processes within the Linux
community, ensuring the interaction between change
trajectories of both its internal resources and external
threats and weaknesses. It will be shown that a number of
mechanisms have institutionalised this interaction in the
community.

Delft-University of Technology, Fraunhofer IAO

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