Information Society Watch

2005,Karl Fogel

This online version of a book published by O'Reilly Media "is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software." The book is written primarily for a OSS project manager who will need to initiate, manage and complete a software development project. Further, the book is an invaluable source of information for the researcher who would like to acquaint herself with the organization sociology and institutional architecture of a typical OSS project. The concluding chapter on Licenses, Copyrights and Patents is an excellent introduction of complex legal concepts to a technical audience.

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