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Open Source Software

In: Standards Battles in Open Source Software

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  • Huibert Vries
  • Henk Vries
  • Ilan Oshri

Abstract

The roots of “open source software” (OSS) go back to the practices of scientific research organizations of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Bell Labs, Xerox Park and the University of California at Berkeley, where this type of voluntary “code sharing” was quite common (Raymond, 1999).

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  • Huibert Vries & Henk Vries & Ilan Oshri, 2008. "Open Source Software," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Standards Battles in Open Source Software, chapter 2, pages 6-19, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59509-5_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230595095_2
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    1. Wiegmann, Paul Moritz & de Vries, Henk J. & Blind, Knut, 2017. "Multi-mode standardisation: A critical review and a research agenda," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(8), pages 1370-1386.
    2. Christ, Julian P. & Slowak, André P., 2009. "Why blu-ray vs. HD-DVD ist not VHS vs. Betamax: The co-evolution of standard-setting consortia," FZID Discussion Papers 05-2009, University of Hohenheim, Center for Research on Innovation and Services (FZID).

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