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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source

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Values of Community Source Development

January 1, 2004

Higher education enters into open source development as a collaborative effort among institutions. They consider this not so much as a way to develop a product or distribute code, but rather a phil…

Using Open Source for Strategic Advantage

January 1, 2004

What is open source and how can it used for strategic advantage? In this talk we will try to untangle the different senses of open source, consider some business and economic models for driving a…

To Open Source or Not to Open Source: Strategic Planning

August 8, 2005

With open source options for most of the academic enterprise stack (e.g. Moodle, Sakai, Kuali, OSPI, uPortal) and many "open course" online resources, what are the issues? What are the r…

The Penguin in Peril: SCO’s Legal Threats to Linux

January 1, 2005

This thesis reviews the novel licences employed by open source developers. The paper examines how the success of the open source Linux operating system has led to conflict with traditional closed s…

The Meaning of Open

December 21, 2009

A blog entry from Google executive, Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management on the meaning on "Open".   A b…

The Importance of Open Source Software

January 1, 2002

Delivered at the Networking 2002 policy conference, Ms. Kunze's powerpoint presenatation provides the basics of Open Source Software, and its implications and policy issues for industry and hi…

The E-Commerce and Development Report 2003 - Chapter 4: Free and Open-source Software: Implications for ICT Policy and Development

January 1, 2004

The E-Commerce and Development Report focuses on trends in information and communications technologies (ICT), such as e-commerce and e-business, and on national and international policy and strateg…

Software and Seeds: Open Source Methods

January 1, 2005

Open source methodologies used in software are interrogated and then compared to the methods used in farmers' rights groups. The use of open source methods in other contexts illustrates increa…

Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: A Study of Open Source Software

January 1, 2006

In recent years over a dozen open source software (OSS) projects have been launched among higher education institutions with the aim of meeting the community's needs more effectively and at le…

Seeking Open Infrastructure: Contrasting Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation

June 15, 2007

While “open” normally has connotations of public goods, the idea of “open”–ness has been used for decades as a competitive strategy by firms in the computers and communications industri…