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| Preface | |
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| History of Open Source | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Age of Pioneers | |
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| The Beginnings of the Open Source Movement | |
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| Diffusion | |
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| Institutionalization | |
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| Recent Developments | |
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| Software and Intellectual Property Rights | |
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| What is Software? | |
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| Why Do Intellectual Property Rights Exist? | |
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| Types of IPR and How They are Applied to Software | |
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| Categories of Software | |
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| Copyright and Open Source Software Licenses | |
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| Open Source Software and Patents | |
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| The Organization of the Open Source Community | |
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| "Who" is the Open Source Community? | |
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| Demographics | |
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| The Motivating Factors of Individuals and Organizations | |
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| Motivations for individuals | |
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| Motivations for organizations | |
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| Motivations for society | |
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| Organization of the Open Source Community | |
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| Software Development Models | |
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| The Software Development Process | |
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| Software Development Process Models | |
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| The Build and Fix Model | |
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| The Waterfall Model | |
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| The Iterative Development Model | |
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| The Evolutionary Model | |
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| The Prototyping Model | |
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| The Spiral Model | |
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| Classification and Comparison of the Models | |
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| The Microsoft Model: Synch and Stabilize | |
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| Comparison between Synch and Stabilize and the Open Source Software Development Process | |
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| Open Source Products and Software Quality | |
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| Open Source Software Projects | |
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| Open Source Software Products | |
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| Evaluating the Quality of Software | |
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| Evaluating Software Quality: the Capability Maturity Model | |
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| Evaluating Open Source Products | |
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| Strategies and Business Models | |
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| Evolution of the ICT Industry | |
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| Increasing Returns and the Diffusion of Open Source Products | |
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| Company Strategy Towards Open Source Software | |
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| Can Open Source Software Lead to New Business Models? | |
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| Government Policies Towards Open Source Software | |
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| Factors in Favour of Governments Adopting Open Source Software | |
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| Limiting Factors for the Adoption of Open Source Software | |
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| What Role Should Governments Play in Supporting and/or Adopting Open Source Software? | |
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| Government Policies Toward Open Source Software in Various Countries | |
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| European countries | |
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| Asian countries | |
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| American countries | |
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| New Trends in Work Organization | |
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| Work Organization: The Open Source Community versus Commercial Companies | |
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| Changes in Organizational Models | |
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| Changes in the Way People Work | |
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| Time and place | |
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| Work autonomy | |
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| Creativity, passion and quality of work | |
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| Work ethic | |
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| Towards New Organizational Models | |
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| Impact on Social Capital | |
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| Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System | |
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| Complexity and Complex Systems | |
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| What are Complex Adaptive Systems? | |
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| The Key Processes in Complex Adaptive Systems | |
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| Variation | |
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| Interaction | |
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| Selection | |
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| Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System | |
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| Developments | |
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| Extension of the Concept of Openness | |
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| Peer-to-peer production | |
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| Open content | |
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| Knowledge organization | |
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| Knowledge diffusion | |
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| Peer collection | |
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| Peer accreditation | |
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| Peer production | |
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| Copyleft Applied to Non-Software Products | |
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| Creative Commons | |
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| Public Library of Science (PloS) | |
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| Other projects | |
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| Conclusions and Open Questions | |
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| References | |