How open is open source: software and beyond
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Hamburg: Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, 2009. (Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement; Nr. 58).
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T1 - How open is open source
T2 - software and beyond
AU - Balka, Kerstin
AU - Raasch, Christina
AU - Herstatt, Cornelius
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - Traditionally the protection of intellectual property is regarded as a pre-condition for value capture. The rise of open source (OS) software and OStangible products, so-called open design, has challenged this understanding. Openness is often regarded as a dichotomous variable (open-source vs.closed-source) and it is assumed that online developer communities demandfull opening of the product’s source.In this paper we explore openness as a gradual and multi-dimensionalconcept. We conduct an Internet survey (N = 270) among participants of20 open design communities in the domain of IT hardware and consumerelectronics. We find that open design projects pursue complex strategiesshort of complete openness and that communities value openness of softwaremore highly than openness of hardware.Our findings suggest that open design companies can successfully employstrategies of partial openness to safeguard value capture without alienatingtheir developer community.
AB - Traditionally the protection of intellectual property is regarded as a pre-condition for value capture. The rise of open source (OS) software and OStangible products, so-called open design, has challenged this understanding. Openness is often regarded as a dichotomous variable (open-source vs.closed-source) and it is assumed that online developer communities demandfull opening of the product’s source.In this paper we explore openness as a gradual and multi-dimensionalconcept. We conduct an Internet survey (N = 270) among participants of20 open design communities in the domain of IT hardware and consumerelectronics. We find that open design projects pursue complex strategiesshort of complete openness and that communities value openness of softwaremore highly than openness of hardware.Our findings suggest that open design companies can successfully employstrategies of partial openness to safeguard value capture without alienatingtheir developer community.
KW - Management studies
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement
BT - How open is open source
PB - Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
CY - Hamburg
ER -