April 16, 2004
'The Success of Open Source'
In the world of open-source software, true believers can be a fervent bunch. Linux, for example, may act as a credo as well as an operating system. But there is much substance beyond zealotry, says Steven Weber, the author of The Success of Open Source (Harvard University Press).
Mr. Weber, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, looks at the subject through the lens of political economy. Open source, he writes, is "an experiment in social organization for
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