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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgment |
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Section I Culture, Society, and Open Source Software |
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Free Software Philosophy and Open Source |
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Greasemonkey and a Challenge to Notions of Authorship |
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12 | (11) |
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Morality and Pragmatism in Free Software and Open Source |
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23 | (11) |
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Hacker Culture and the FLOSS Innovation |
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34 | (13) |
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Social Technologies and the Digital Commons |
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47 | (21) |
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ALBA Architecture as Proposal for OSS Collaborative Science |
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68 | (11) |
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Evaluating the Potential of Free and Open Source Software in the Developing World |
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79 | (14) |
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Open Source Software: A Developing Country View |
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93 | (9) |
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The Social and Economical Impact of OSS in Developing Countries |
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102 | (14) |
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Section II Development Models and Methods for Open Source Software Production |
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Dependencies, Networks, and Priorities in an Open Source Project |
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116 | (10) |
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Patchwork Prototyping with Open Source Software |
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126 | (15) |
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An Agile Perspective on Open Source Software Engineering |
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141 | (13) |
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A Model for the Successful Migration to Desktop OSS |
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154 | (14) |
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The Social Order of Open Source Software Production |
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168 | (16) |
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Section III Evaluating Open Source Software Products and Uses |
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Open Source Software: Strengths and Weaknesses |
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184 | (13) |
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Open Source Software Evaluation |
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197 | (14) |
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211 | (16) |
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Curious Exceptions? Open Source Software and ``Open'' Technology |
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227 | (13) |
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Reducing Transaction Costs with GLW Infrastructure |
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240 | (15) |
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Marcus Vinicius Brandao Soares |
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Issues to Consider when Choosing Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) |
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255 | (14) |
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Evaluating Open Source Software through Prototyping |
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269 | (13) |
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Motives and Methods for Quantitative FLOSS Research |
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282 | (12) |
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A Generalized Comparison of Open Source and Commercial Database Management Systems |
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294 | (15) |
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Evaluation of a Migration to Open Source Software |
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309 | (19) |
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Section IV Laws and Licensing Practices Affecting Open Source Software Uses |
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Legal and Economic Justification for Software Protection |
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328 | (12) |
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OSS Adoption in the Legal Services Community |
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340 | (8) |
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The Road of Computer Code Featuring the Political Economy of Copyleft and Legal Analysis of the General Public License |
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348 | (15) |
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The Evolution of Free Software |
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363 | (10) |
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Free Access to Law and Open Source Software |
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373 | (9) |
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Examining Open Source Software Licenses through the Creative Commons Licensing Model |
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382 | (12) |
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FLOSS Legal and Engineering Terms and a License Taxonomy |
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394 | (18) |
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Section V Public Policy, the Public Sector, and Government Perspectives on Open Source Software |
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On the Role of Public Policies Supporting Free/Open Source Software |
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412 | (16) |
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Use of OSS by Local E-Administration: The French Situation |
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428 | (17) |
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Issues and Aspects of Open Source Software Usage and Adoption in the Public Sector |
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445 | (15) |
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The Labor Politics of Scratching an Itch |
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460 | (8) |
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Open Source Technology and Ideology in the Nonprofit Context |
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468 | (12) |
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Governance and the Open Source Repository |
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480 | (15) |
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Section VI Business Approaches and Applications Involving Open Source Software |
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Analyzing Firm Participation in Open Source Communities |
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495 | (15) |
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Ruben van Wendel de Joode |
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510 | (12) |
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Open Source Software Business Models and Customer Involvement Economics |
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522 | (10) |
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Christoph Schlueter Langdon |
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Investing in Open Source Software Companies: Deal Making from a Venture Capitalist's Perspective |
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532 | (9) |
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Revenue Models in the Open Source Software Business |
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541 | (14) |
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Open Source for Accounting and Enterprise Systems |
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555 | (15) |
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Open Source Software and the Corporate World |
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570 | (8) |
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Business Models in Open Source Software Value Creation |
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578 | (12) |
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Novell's Open Source Evolution |
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590 | (20) |
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Section VII Educational Perspectives and Practices Related to Open Source Software |
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Communities of Practice for Open Source Software |
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610 | (14) |
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Selecting Open Source Software for Use in Schools |
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624 | (14) |
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Open Source E-Learning Systems: Evaluation of Features and Functionality |
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638 | (11) |
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The Role of Open Source Software in Open Access Publishing |
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649 | (10) |
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An Innovative Desktop OSS Implementation in a School |
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659 | (11) |
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Rapid Insertion of Leading Edge Industrial Strength Software into University Classrooms |
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670 | (11) |
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Wikis as an Exemplary Model of Open Source Learning |
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681 | (9) |
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A Perspective on Software Engineering Education with Open Source Software |
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690 | (13) |
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| About the Contributors |
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703 | (17) |
| Index |
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