The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development (Hardcover)

Josh Lerner, Mark Schankerman

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2010-09-24
  • 售價: $1,080
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 256
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262014637
  • ISBN-13: 9780262014632
  • 相關分類: 經濟學 Economy
  • 立即出貨(限量) (庫存=2)

商品描述

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open source on consumers, firms, and economic development in general. This book fills that gap. In The Comingled Code, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.

The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open source, and users extensively mix and match the two. Lerner and Schankerman examine the ways in which software differs from other technologies in promoting economic development, what motivates individuals and firms to contribute to open source projects, how developers and users view the trade-offs between the two kinds of software, and how government policies can ensure that open source competes effectively with proprietary software and contributes to economic development.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

開源軟體的經濟影響討論往往引起更多的爭議而非啟發。支持者熱情地主張開源的好處,而批評者則譴責其影響。這場辯論中缺乏嚴謹的經濟分析和系統性的經濟證據,來證明開源對消費者、企業和經濟發展的影響。本書填補了這一空白。在《混合編碼》中,喬希·勒納和馬克·尚克曼利用一個新的大規模數據庫,展示了開源和專有軟體之間有時出人意料的互動方式,並討論了這些發現的政策意涵。

這些新數據(來自不同發展階段的各國)記錄了開源和專有軟體的混合使用情況:企業在銷售專有軟體的同時也貢獻於開源,使用者廣泛地混合使用這兩種軟體。勒納和尚克曼探討了軟體在促進經濟發展方面與其他技術的不同之處,個人和企業參與開源項目的動機是什麼,開發人員和使用者如何看待這兩種軟體之間的權衡,以及政府政策如何確保開源與專有軟體有效競爭並促進經濟發展。