When beggars become choosers

First Monday

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2000, Pages

  Edwards, Kasper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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References (27)

1. Josh Learner and Jean Tirole, 2000. "The Simple Economics of Open Source", Working Paper 7600. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, and http://papers.nber.org/papers/w7600
2. Josh Learner and Jean Tirole, The Simple Economics of Open Source", Op.cit., p. 34.
3. Josh Learner and Jean Tirole, The Simple Economics of Open Source", Op.cit., p. 21.
4. Eric S. Raymond, 1999. "Homesteading the Noosphere", In: The Cathedral and The Bazaar. Sebastopol, Calif.: O?Reilly and Associates.
5. "The Linux Study", at http://www.psychologie.uni-kiel.de/linux- study/index.html
6. Eric S. Raymond, 1999. "The Cathedral and Bazaar", In: The Cathedral and The Bazaar. Sebastopol, Calif.: O?Reilly and Associates.
7. Learner and Tirole, p. 21.
8. Op.cit., p. 22.
9. Linus Torvalds is the original author of the Linux kernel, and still the central person in Linux development.
10. Frank Damgaard, 1999. "Linux History ? 1", accessed 16 May 2000, at http://www.sslug.dk/artikler/linux_history_1.html
11. Nikolai Bezroukov, "Hijacking of Minux community and the beginning of Linux development (1991-1992)", accessed 25 May 2000, at http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Linus_Torvalds_biography.shtml
12. A patch is a fix to a program, a piece of code that is to replace some code that is faulty.
13. Linus Torvalds, 1999. "The Linux Edge", In: Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone (editors). Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Sebastopol, Calif.: O?Reilly.
14. The development of Fetchmail is extensively described in the paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond, see http://www.tuxedo.org/∼esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar.html
15. There is a tradition in the Linux community to define users and co-developers as the same. In this paper users are just that ? users. Co-developers are users that cross the line and begin to take interest and responsibility for the program they are using by providing some sort of feedback to the project-leader.
16. Frank Damgaard, 1999. "Linux History ? 1", accessed 16 May 2000, at http://www.sslug.dk/artikler/linux_history_1.html
17. Learner and Tirole, p. 21.
18. API, Application Programming Interface ? A set of functions that allow use of festures in a program. An exaple: The Win32 API is the set of functions a programmer must apply when creating applications for the Windows family operating systems.
19. Brian Behlendorf, 1999. "Open Source as a Business Strategy", In: Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone (editors). Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Sebastopol, Calif.: O?Reilly.
20. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, and a powerful application framework for the software developer. See http://www.gnome.org/
21. Federico M. Quintero, Miguel de Icaza, and Morten Welinder, 1999. "GNOME Programming Guidelines", accessed 26 April 2000, at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/programming-guidelines/book1.html
22. The Linux study reviled that the 141 developers asked were scattered over more that 11 nations; accessed 14 June 2000, at http://www.psychologie.uni- kiel.de/linux-study/nations.gif
23. These are e-mail, Web pages, newsgroups, chat, and others.
24. The Web site of kernel traffic can be found at http://kt.linuxcare.com/ kernel-traffic/
25. http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt19991101_41.epl#6
26. F.P. Brooks, 1995. The Mythical Man-Month. Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley Longman, pp. 21-26.
27. S. Koch and G. Schnieder, G. 2000. "Results from Software Engineering Research into open Source Development Projects Using Public Data", Diskussionspapiere zum Tätigkeitsfeld Informationsverarbeitung und Informationswirtschaft, Hans R. Hansen und Wolfgang H. Janko (Hrsg.), Nr. 22, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.