OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTED INNOVATION

摘要

Open-source software development is a production model that exploits the distributed intelligence of participants in Internet communities. This model is efficient because of two related reasons: it avoids the inefficiencies of a strong intellectual regime and it implements concurrently design and testing of software modules. The hazard of open source is that projects can 'fork' into competing versions. However, open-source communities consists of governance structures that constitutionally minimize this danger.