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dear stefan,sorry but i've been really busy speaking at several conferences in the past month... anyway, i have the abstract attached as html, could you please enclose it on the web-site/print version? i'm not sure how to put it on the website (i know i have an account for the oekonux site somewhere, but...)
as a bonus, ruediger has written a german version so you don't have to translate this.
-rishab At 03:23 PM 26/10/2002 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], you wrote:
Title: The F/LOSS study — Socioeconomics of free / open source software development-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dear Rishab, Sheen, Jussi, while preparing a folder for the conference participants I saw, that you did not enter an abstract into the database. *Please* do that as soon as possible! If people shall visit your presentation they need to have a chance to know what is it about. The title alone does not suffice.
The F/LOSS study — Socioeconomics of free / open source software development Rishab A. Ghosh / Rüdiger Glott Abstract: In
recent years, free software and open source software have gained enormous
importance, in software markets as well as in policy-making. The main drivers
of this trend have been the success of products like the Linux operating system
or the Apache web server. However, only few is known about those who produce
this kind of software, the community of open source and free software developers.
In a comprehensive study, the F/LOSS project (F/LOSS stands for Free/Libre and
Open Source Software) has revealed the socio-economic characteristics of this
diverse community. Our presentation will, firstly, provide an overview of the
methodology and the sample of the study. Following, we will present differences
in the fundamental beliefs and motivations of the F/LOSS developers. In the
latter context, we will focus on two aspects: Firstly, we will clarify the
impact of closed software for the community of F/LOSS developers; secondly, we
will critically discuss the hypothesis that very much of the principles of free
and open source software development can be explained by economic motivations
and orientations, which is a prominent point of view in economic literature. Zusammenfassung: Free Software
und Open Source Software haben in den letzten Jahren erheblich an Bedeutung
gewonnen, nicht nur für Softwaremärkte, sondern auch für die Politik.
Wesentlich getrieben wurde diese Entwicklung durch den Siegeszug von Produkten
wie dem Linux Operating System und dem Apache Web-Server. Über diejenigen, die
diese Software erzeugen, die Community der Open Source- und Free
Software-Entwickler, ist hingegen bisher nicht viel bekannt. Das F/LOSS-Projekt
(F/LOSS steht für Free/Libre and Open Source Software) hat in einer umfassenden
Studie die sozio-ökonomischen Merkmale dieser mannigfaltigen Community erhoben.
Der Vortrag wird zunächst die Methodik und das Sample der F/LOSS-Studie
vorstellen. Im Anschluss daran werden Unterschiede in den grundlegenden
Orientierungen und den unterschiedlichen Motivationen der F/LOSS-Entwickler
präsentiert. Zwei Aspekte werden dabei die Schwerpunkte unseres Vortrags
ausmachen: Zum einen klären wir, welche Bedeutung Closed Software für die
Community der F/LOSS-Entwickler hat, zum anderen setzen wir uns kritisch mit
der in der Literatur über Free und Open Source Software häufig betonten These
auseinander, dass die Prinzipien der Entwicklung von Free und Open Source Software
weitgehend durch ökonomische Motive und Orientierungen erklärt werden können. |
[English translation] | |||
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