Government Policy toward Open Source Software
Seiten
2002
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-3393-5 (ISBN)
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-3393-5 (ISBN)
Can open source software —software that is usually available without charge and that individuals are free to modify —survive against the fierce competition of proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows? Should the government intervene on its behalf? This book addresses a host of issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software.
Can open source software —software that is usually available without charge and that individuals are free to modify —survive against the fierce competition of proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows? Should the government intervene on its behalf? This book addresses a host of issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development, government procurement policy, and patent and copyright policy. Contributors offer diverse perspectives on a phenomenon that has become a lightning rod for controversy in the field of information technology.
Contributors include James Bessen (Research on Innovation), David S. Evans (National Economic Research Associates), Lawrence Lessig (Stanford University), Bradford L. Smith (Microsoft Corporation), and Robert W. Hahn (director, AEI-Brookings Joint Center).
Can open source software —software that is usually available without charge and that individuals are free to modify —survive against the fierce competition of proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows? Should the government intervene on its behalf? This book addresses a host of issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development, government procurement policy, and patent and copyright policy. Contributors offer diverse perspectives on a phenomenon that has become a lightning rod for controversy in the field of information technology.
Contributors include James Bessen (Research on Innovation), David S. Evans (National Economic Research Associates), Lawrence Lessig (Stanford University), Bradford L. Smith (Microsoft Corporation), and Robert W. Hahn (director, AEI-Brookings Joint Center).
Robert W. Hahn is co-founder and executive director of the American Enterprise Institute Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a resident scholar at AEI, Washington, D.C., USA. He has served as a consultant to government and industry on a variety of issues involving regulation and antitrust.
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8157-3393-3 / 0815733933 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8157-3393-5 / 9780815733935 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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