[ox-en] The Simple Economics of Open Source by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
- From: Chris Croome <chris croome.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:32:03 +0100
Hi
Has anyone read this:
THE SIMPLE ECONOMICS OF OPEN SOURCE
Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
There has been a recent surge of interest in open source
software development, which involves developers at many
different locations and organizations sharing code to
develop and refine programs. To an economist, the
behavior of individual programmers and commercial
companies engaged in open source projects is initially
startling. This paper makes a preliminary exploration of
the economics of open source software. We highlight the
extent to which labor economics, especially the
literature on "career concerns," can explain many of
these projects’ features. Aspects of the future of open
source development process, however, remain somewhat
difficult to predict with "off-the-shelf" economic
models.
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/abstracts/9900/00-059.html
It is only available as a PDF file as far as I can work
out...
Also another two document that I haven't read yet that
look interesting:
The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software
and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/13.3truscello.html
Scientific Instrument Making, Epistemology and the
Conflict between Gift and Commodity Economies
http://www.cla.sc.edu/Phil/faculty/baird/giftf.htm
Chris
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