First Monday Special Issue on Open Source

This may be to interest to all of you. Thanks to those in the community who
participated.
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*Introduction*

*The elephant and the blind men - Deciphering the Free/Libre/Open Source
puzzle<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/krishnamurthy/index.html>
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by Sandeep Krishnamurthy
 *Reflections (in alphabetical order)*

*Future research on FLOSS
development<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/crowston/index.html>
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by Kevin Crowston

*Open Source software engineering – The state of
research<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/koch/index.html>
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by Stefan Koch and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

*The future of sociology of
FLOSS<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/lin/index.html>
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by Yuwei Lin

*Can the cathedral co-exist with the bazaar? An analysis of Open Source
software in commercial
firms<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/madanmohan/index.html>
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by Madanmohan and Sandeep Krishnamurthy

*Reflections on free software past and
future<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/hill/index.html>
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by Benjamin Mako Hill

*There's no such thing as free software (And it's a good thing,
too)<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/mcgowan/index.html>
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by David McGowan

*The emerging economic paradigm of Open
Source<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/perens/index.html>
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by Bruce Perens

*What did we learn from Open
Source?<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_10/tuomi/index.html>
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by Ilkka Tuomi
 *The Classic Beginning*

*The cathedral and the
bazaar<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/raymond/index.html>
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by Eric Raymond *(originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March 1998)*

*Cooking pot markets: An economic model for the trade in free goods and
services on the
Internet<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/ghosh/index.html>
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by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh *(originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March
1998)*
*Homesteading the
noosphere<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_10/raymond/index.html>
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by Eric Raymond *(originally published in Volume 3, Number 10, October 1998)
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 *Motivation*

*FM Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software
developers?<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/torvalds/index.html>
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by Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh *(originally published in Volume 3, Number 3, March
1998)*

*Altruistic individuals, selfish firms? The structure of motivation in Open
Source software<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_1/bonaccorsi/index.html>
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by Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cristina Rossi *(originally published in Volume 9,
Number 1, January 2004)*
 Social Structure

*Cave or community: An empirical examination of 100 mature Open Source
projects<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/krishnamurthy/index.html>
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by Sandeep Krishnamurthy *(originally published in Volume 7, Number 6, June
2002)*

*The social structure of free and Open Source software
development<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/crowston/index.html>
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by Kevin Crowston and James Howison *(originally published in Volume 10,
Number 2, February 2005)*
 Linux

*Essence of distributed work: The case of the Linux
kernel<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_11/moon/index.html>
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by Jae Yun Moon and Lee Sproull *(originally published in Volume 5, Number
11, November 2000)*

*Evolution of the Linux credits file: Methodological challenges and
reference data for Open Source
research<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/tuomi/index.html>
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by Ilkka Tuomi *(originally published in Volume 9, Number 6, June 2004)*

*Management and virtual decentralised networks: The Linux
project<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_11/dafermos/index.html>
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by George N. Dafermos *(originally published in Volume 6, Number 11,
November 2001)*

*Linux: A bazaar at the edge of
chaos<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_3/kuwabara/index.html>
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by Ko Kuwabara *(originally published in Volume 5, Number 3, March 2000)*
 Critiques of Open Source

*Fundamental issues with Open Source software
development<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/levesque/index.html>
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by Michelle Levesque *(originally published in Volume 9, Number 4, April
2004)*

*The fading altruism of Open Source
development<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/lancashire/index.html>
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by David Lancashire *(originally published in Volume 6, Number 12, December
2001)*

*The usability of Open Source
software<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_1/nichols/index.html>
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by David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale *(originally published in Volume
8, Number 1, January 2003)*


--
Sandeep Krishnamurthy
Associate Professor of E-Commerce and Marketing
University of Washington

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Haiku written by a recent MBA E-Commerce student-

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Wise professor much to teach
Class leaves with full brains