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Networks, Social Influence, and the Choice Among Competing Innovations: Insights from Open Source Software Licenses

Param Vir Singh, Corey Phelps · Information Systems Research · 2012

Existing research provides little insight into how social influence affects the adoption and diffusion of competing innovative artifacts and how the experiences of organizational members who have worked with particular innovations in their previous employers affect their current organizations' adoption decision. We adapt and extend the heterogeneous diffusion model from sociology and examine the conditions under which prior adopters of competing open source software (OSS) licenses socially influence how a new OSS project chooses among such licenses and how the experiences of the project manager of a new OSS project with particular licenses affects its susceptibility to this social influence. We test our predictions using a sample of 5,307 open source projects hosted at SourceForge. Our results suggest the most important factor determining a new project's license choice is the type of license chosen by existing projects that are socially closer to it in its inter-project social network. Moreover, we find that prior adopters of a particular license are more infectious in their influence on the license choice of a new project as their size and performance rankings increase. We also find that managers of new projects who have been members of more successful prior OSS projects and who have greater depth and diversity of experience in the OSS community are less susceptible to social influence. Finally, we find a project manager is more likely to adopt a particular license type when his or her project occupies a similar social role as other projects that have adopted the same license. These results have implications for research on innovation adoption and diffusion, open source software licensing, and the governance of economic exchange.

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The Innovations of Open Source

Dirk Riehle · Computer · 2019

Open source has given us many innovations. This article provides an overview of the most important innovations and illustrates the impact that open source is having on the software industry and beyond. The main innovations of open source can be grouped into four categories: legal, process, tool, and business models. Probably the best known innovations are open source licenses, which also define the concept. Software becomes open source if users receive it under an open source license. Discusses each of these categories in detail and explains their significance for open source development.

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Is Wheat Variety Development in Canada Open Source? The Issue

Sn A · 2014

Software developers are increasingly utilizing the open source development methodology to create both novel and incremental software innovations. Open source software allows developers access to the source code, which can then be used to troubleshoot or modify the program for a new application. Instead of rewriting an entire program, a developer can incrementally improve an existing program without worrying about infringing on property rights. The open source web browser Mozilla Firefox is an example of the open source approach to software development. Numerous updates and add-ins are available, ranging from media player controllers to

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www.ijsrp.org FOSS for Cause

Vishal T. Mishra · 2016

Abstract- The utilization of the computer and web technology has given rise to many innovations in the world community including education. Free Open Source Software (FOSS) are one of these innovations. The business community have used the advantages of FOSS to benefit their institutions. Compared with Proprietary (Closed Source), FOSS proves to be lot better. Most of the Open-source software is free to use, easy to distribute and modify. It has lower costs, and in most cases this is only a fraction of the cost of their proprietary counterparts and thus can be counted as its advantage. This paper gives a brief description about open source hardware and open source software. Android Wallet and Eye Stick Navigation System are two projects based on them. A brief summary of them is given in this paper.

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EVALUATION OF OPEN SOURCE LICENSING MODELS FOR A COMPANY DEVELOPING MASS MARKET SOFTWARE

Mikko Välimäki Researcher, Ville Oksanen, Visiting Scholar · 2014

Open source and free software products have challenged established licensing models for many types of mass mar-ket software products. Especially markets in operating systems, development tools, web servers and databases have significant open source and free software products. A software company that wishes to benefit from the non-technical innovations in open source and free software licenses has to carefully study the markets and character-istics of different open source licensing models. This arti-cle contains a preliminary evaluation of several frequently used open source licenses and licensing models from the perspective of a company developing mass market soft-ware products for competitive markets. Comparing them to commercial licensing models, the article aims to ex-plain when and how open source licenses make economic sense.

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Public Subsidies for Open Source? Some Economic Policy Issues of the Software Market. Munich: Seminar for Economic Theory

Klaus M. Schmidt, Monika Schnitzer · 2002

Abstract: This paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect govern-mental support for open source projects. Software markets differ from standard textbook markets in three important respects that may give rise to market failures: (i) large economies of scale, (ii) crucially important innovations, (iii) significant net-work effects and switching costs. We analyze the differences between proprietary software and open source software with respect to these market features and ask whether open source as an alternative to proprietary software can mitigate these problems. Then we discuss the implications of various forms of governmental sup-port for open source.

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An Analysis of the Dynamics of the Legitimation Processes of Innovations in Open Source Software: A Qualitative Study of the Rational Deliberations in the Drupal Project

Soran Nouri · 2021

Within the Open Source Software (OSS) literature, there is a lack of studies addressing the legitimation processes of innovations that are born in OSS. This study sets out to analyze the legitimation processes of innovations within the deliberations of the Drupal project. The data set constitutes 52 rational deliberation cases discussing innovations that were proposed by members of the community. Habermas’s Ideal Speech Situations (ISS) is used as the framework to view Drupal’s rational deliberations from; in fact within the 52 cases that are examined in this thesis, there were no violations to the guidelines of the ISS in the deliberations. The Communicative Action Theory, Influence Tactics theory and the theory of Validity Claims are aspects of the framework that is used to code and analyze the conversations. These aspects allow for an effective conceptualization of the dynamics of the Drupal deliberations. This thesis was able to find that legitimation processes of innovations in open source software were influenced by the type, complexity and implications of the innovations on the rest of the community. Also, bug fixes, complex innovations and innovations that have implications on the rest of the software will result in a long (in terms of number of comments) legitimation process. Also, it is empirically backed in this study that in open deliberations that aim at achieving mutual understanding towards a common goal, the communicative action type and the rational persuasion influence tactic are the most common methods for innovators to interact with the community.

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An Analysis of the Dynamics of the Legitimation Processes of Innovations in Open Source Software: A Qualitative Study of the Rational Deliberations in the Drupal Project

Soran Nouri · Figshare · 2021

Within the Open Source Software (OSS) literature, there is a lack of studies addressing the legitimation processes of innovations that are born in OSS. This study sets out to analyze the legitimation processes of innovations within the deliberations of the Drupal project. The data set constitutes 52 rational deliberation cases discussing innovations that were proposed by members of the community. Habermas’s Ideal Speech Situations (ISS) is used as the framework to view Drupal’s rational deliberations from; in fact within the 52 cases that are examined in this thesis, there were no violations to the guidelines of the ISS in the deliberations. The Communicative Action Theory, Influence Tactics theory and the theory of Validity Claims are aspects of the framework that is used to code and analyze the conversations. These aspects allow for an effective conceptualization of the dynamics of the Drupal deliberations. This thesis was able to find that legitimation processes of innovations in open source software were influenced by the type, complexity and implications of the innovations on the rest of the community. Also, bug fixes, complex innovations and innovations that have implications on the rest of the software will result in a long (in terms of number of comments) legitimation process. Also, it is empirically backed in this study that in open deliberations that aim at achieving mutual understanding towards a common goal, the communicative action type and the rational persuasion influence tactic are the most common methods for innovators to interact with the community.

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Open Source Software Development: Historical andCurrent Perspectives for Academic Librarianship

Amruth Sherikar, Suresh Jange · 2006

Open source software production is a successful new innovation model which disproves that only private ownership of intellectual property rights fosters innovations. The emergence of Open Source Software (OSS) has gained the attention of research librarians and created new opportunities for libraries to make optimum utilization of the software keeping in view of the benefits not only to the users, but also to the libraries with respect to time, space and accessibility. The paper attempts to discuss the concept of Open Source Software in the modern era by highlighting the relevance of it to the library profession by tracing historical developments of Open Source Software’s. It also elucidates the development of open source operating systems over a period of time and provides briefly the Open Source Software projects available in the Internet era for the professionals of different disciplines.

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Open source disruptive-innovation strategy

Evangelos G. Katsamakas, Nicholas C. Georgantzas · Human Systems Management · 2010

Is open source software disrupting the software industry? If yes, how does this process work and what are its likely impacts? The purpose of this article is to explore the market effects of open source software as a disruptive innovation. The research framework it proposes accounts for the dynamic complexity of the open-source disruptive innovation strategy (DIS) of disrupter firms or communities, and the disruptive-innovation response strategies (DIRS) of incumbent software firms. The article articulates essential components of DIS and DIRS, namely new software performance dimensions and organizational innovations that open source enables. The interaction of DIS and DIRS processes through time can lead either to the failure or to the co-existence of incumbent and disrupter firms or communities. The article extends disruptive innovation theory and helps managers make sense of the complex competitive dynamics introduced by open source.

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From “Free” to “Open Source” to Products

Gordon Haff · Apress eBooks · 2021

We’ve seen how free and open source software not only came onto the scene but became an essential part of the computing landscape. Not just cheaper than proprietary software but a model that encourages the creation of software ecosystems and new innovations.

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From “Free” to “Open Source”

Gordon Haff · Apress eBooks · 2018

We’ve seen how free and open source software not only came onto the scene but became an essential part of the computing landscape. Not just cheaper than proprietary software but a model that encourages the creation of software ecosystems and new innovations.

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Barcellona è pronta per FOSS4G 2010

Lorenzo Becchi · SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología · 2010

FOSS4G 2010 FOSS4G is "the conference" for Open Source Geospatial Software and on september 2010 will meet in Barcelona, Spain. At FOSS4G you will meet all kind of actors: Free Software developers and any kind of representatives from companies, institutions and the academic world. The spatial industry is undergoing rapid innovations and the open source spatial community is one of the forces driving the change.

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Hemilä, Janne · Aaltodoc (Aalto University) · 2015

My experience working with open source software exposed a lack of comprehensive, easily graspable, introductory articles suitable for non-technical readers. The objective of this study is to provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding on how to utilize open source software in a commercial environment. Through a literature review this study identifies common patterns among open source projects and related companies. Patterns have been organized into four identified domains: legal, social, technological and business. Real life examples of the patterns are provided to assist understanding. In conclusion, this thesis argues that open source can be utilized to build successful commercial operations. Open source can be used to improve software development, software quality, to gain feedback, to expand the user base, to influence the direction of technological progress and to benefit from innovations, which would otherwise be hard to monetize. However, open source also introduces serious drawbacks and risks regarding commercial operations, including low appropriability, market destruction and loss of control of the software development.

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Die Innovationstätigkeit der deutschen Softwareindustrie

Friedewald, M., Blind, K., Edler, J. · Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) · 2002

In this article we present the results of two empirical studies focusing on the structure and extent of the innovation activities of the German Software Industry and analyze distinctive features of Software Innovations. We distinguish the activities of the primary (core) Software Industry and secondary industries such as Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Motor Industry and Telecommunications. A special focus is put on the question if innovations in Software are sequential, on the role of Open Source Software and the importance of interoperability.

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Integration of an Open Source Identity Management System in Educational Platforms

Enrique Barra, Alejandro Pozo, Sonsoles López‐Pernas et al. · Journal of Web Engineering · 2024

Making research advances available to the community in the shape of open source software has the potential to introduce cutting-edge innovations from early on, foster collaborative development, and revolutionize industrial applications. However, including open source software resulting from a research project as part of a production system poses some risks and must be evaluated in detail, considering all pros and cons. This is especially delicate when that piece of software is in charge of authentication and authorization. This article reports on an experience of integrating open source identity and access management (IAM) software that is the result of multiple research projects, the FIWARE Keyrock IAM, into three educational web-based platforms: two learning object repositories and a course management platform. We intend to draw the lessons learned from this experience so they can guide software practitioners when deciding if they should integrate open source software developed in research projects.

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