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Economics And Business Of Free Software-Study Guide
We have been tasked to write a study guide for a subject in a Masters in Free (as in Free and Open Source) Software. The subject is about the economics and economic exploitation of free and open source software. The book will be written in Spanish and translated into Catalan.
Brief and premises for the work:
- The work is a study guide spanning about 100 pages tying together articles and other readings.
- Total reading load for students will be 100-150 pages on top of the study guide.
- Readings can be in English, although it's better if they in Spanish and/or Catalan. Students are not native speakers of English, although this course will be billed as "enrol only if you can read English comfortably".
- There are two requirement subjects for this one: one dealing with free software licensing, and another optional one on legal aspects of free software, which goes deeper into copyright, but also takes into account trademarks, patents, code ownership and other particulars. We therefore don't need to dwell on such topics.
Core competencies students will take from the course:
Knowledge of:
- The most relevant economic factors related to software
- The different business models in the software industry
- The different business models in the *free software* industry
- The economic, technical and legal aspects of setting up a company offering products and services relating to free software
Ability to:
- Analyse free software usage in the private sector
- Design plans for migration to free software in the private sector
- Draw decision plans for publishing existing software under a free license.
- Build a business plan for the establishment of a company in the free software business.
This is the set of core competencies, not necessarily the layout plan for the study guide.
Resources
Study cases:
Free Software Business Associations:
General Economics:
- Let's find the simplest book in Spanish about the subject. <- First chapters of Cusumano will do.
Creating a Business:
- Centro Europeo de Empresas e Innovación del Principado de Asturias: Guide for business creation (Includes a detailed guide to writing the "plan de empresa") (http://www.guia.ceei.es/)
The Economics of Free Software
Books:
Articles:
The business of software:
Books:
Syllabi:
Free Software in business, Free Software as a business
Syllabi:
Articles:
- Frank Hecker: Setting Up Shop. The Business of Open Source Business(http://hecker.org/writings/setting-up-shop)
- Alfonso Fuggetta: Open Source and Free Software: A New Model for The Software Development Process? (English: http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2004/5/up5-5Fuggetta.pdf | Spanish: http://alarcos.inf-cr.uclm.es/doc/ig1/doc/temas/4/IG1-t4slibreabierto.pdf)
- Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards: The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community,(http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-028.pdf)
- Sandra Siber: Factores que influyen en la adopción del código abierto. (http://www.iese.edu/es/files/5_22817.pdf)
- Sandra Siber y Josep Valor: Criterios de adopción de las tecnologías de información y comunicación. (http://www.iese.edu/es/files/5_15214.pdf)
- OSS-Watch: Open Source Business: Differentiation and Success (http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/businessmodels.xml)
- 50 Open Source Success Stories in Business, Education, and Government (http://www.blogcrm.com/50-open-source-success-stories-in-business-education-and-government.php)
- Why Open Source Software: David Wheeler (http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html)
- Jordi Mas: Open Bravo Manifesto: http://www.openbravo.com/es/about-us/our-company/openbravo-manifesto/
- Juantomás García, Alfredo Romeo: Análisis Financiero del Software Libre (Capítulo 7 de "La Pastilla Roja") (Componentes del Total Cost of Ownership. Costes Directos e Indirectos. Casos Prácticos Coste del Software Propietario frente a costes de Software Libre.) http://www.lapastillaroja.net/capitulos_liberados_pdf/la_pastilla_roja_capitulo_7.pdf
- West, J. y Gallagher, S. (2006) “Patterns of Open Innovation in Open Source Software”, en Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 82-106. http://www.openinnovation.net/Book/NewParadigm/Chapters/index.html
- Capiobanco, F. y Onetti, A. (2005) “Open Source and Business Model Innovation. The Funambol case”, en Scotto, M and Succi, G (Eds) Proceedings of First International Conference on Open Source (OSS2005), Génova, 11-15 Julio 2005, pp. 224-227. http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/Papers/4.pdf
- Riehle, D. “The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder perspectives.” IEEE Computer, 40(4):25–32, 2007. http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2007/computer-2007-article.html
- Comino, S. y Manetti, F. M. (2007) Dual licensing in open source markets. Univerista Degli Studi di Trento, Departamento de ecnomía, 2007. http://www-econo.economia.unitn.it/new/pubblicazioni/papers/18_07_comino.pdf
- Daffara, C. (2007) Business models in FLOSS-based companies. Conecta Reasearch, 2007 http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/OSSEMP07-daffara.pdf
- Pal, M. (2005) “Participatory Testing: The SpikeSource Approach”. O'Reilly Network, 4 de Julio de 2005 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/04/07/spikesource.html
- Kelsey, J. Y Schneier, B. (1999) “The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights”, First Monday, volumen 4, número 6. Junio 1999 http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_6/kelsey/
- Rasch, C. (2001) “The Wall Street Performer Protocol”, First Monday, volumen 6, número 6, Junio de 2001. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/rasch/index.html
Books:
Videos:
Talks:
(OSBC).'' http://www.osbc.com/live/images/13/presentation_dwn/Keynote-Open_Source_Why_Freedom.pdf
Conferences:
SMEs, ICT and Free Software: European situation
Articles
Developing Free Software
Books:
Migration to Open Source Software
Articles
Guides
Syllabi
Miscellaneous
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