Editorial Reviews
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New York Times : A valuable new account of the [open-source software] movement.
--Edward Rothstein
Chronicle of Higher Education : In the world of open-source software, true believers can be a fervent bunch.
--Nina C. Ayoub
Slashdot : Weber's ideas are timely and informative for anyone who wants to explain or advocate Open Source.
--Joshua Daniel Franklin
London Review of Books : [The Success of Open Source] deserve[s] the careful attention of a wide audience, including, especially, governments.
--Lawrence Lessig
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We can blindly continue to develop, reward, protect, and organize around knowledge assets on the comfortable assumption that their traditional property rights remain inviolate. Or we can listen to Steven Weber and begin to make our peace with the uncomfortable fact that the very foundations of our familiar \"knowledge as property\" world have irrevocably shifted.
--Alan Kantrow, Chief Knowledge Officer, Monitor Group
Ever since the invention of agriculture, human beings have had only three social-engineering tools for organizing any large-scale division of labor: markets (and the carrots of material benefits they offer), hierarchies (and the sticks of punishment they impose), and charisma (and the promises of rapture they offer). Now there is the possibility of a fourth mode of effective social organization--one that we perhaps see in embryo in the creation and maintenance of open-source software. My Berkeley colleague Steven Weber's book is a brilliant exploration of this fascinating topic.
--J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Steven Weber has produced a significant, insightful book that is both smart and important. The most impressive achievement of this volume is that Weber has spent the time to learn and think about the technological, sociological, business, and legal perspectives related to open source. The Success of Open Source is timely and more thought provoking than almost anything I've come across in the past several years. It deserves careful reading by a wide audience.
--Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
The Success of Open Source
The Success of Open Source,Steven Weber,Harvard University Press,0674018583,Computers - Languages / Programming,General,Industries - Computer Industry,Political Science,Politics/International Relations,Programming - Software Development,Computer Programming,Current Events / Law
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