The Study on Innovation Mechanism of Open Source Software Community

Author

Xu Hao ; Zhang Zhengang ; Lin Chunpei ; Ding Zhuo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Bus. Adm., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper intends to analyze the innovation mechanism of open source community in view of system engineering, economics and ecology. Firstly, the concept of open source production is proposed and defined on the basis of system engineering, and then the economic characteristics of open source are put forward and summarized through the analysis of the difference of production structure between open source software and proprietary software. Subsequently, the "innovation entropy" is proposed to measure the efficacy of community innovation and the mechanism is further revealed according to dissipative structure and complex science theory.

Keywords

innovation management; public domain software; software development management; complex science theory; innovation entropy; innovation mechanism; open source software community; proprietary software; Business; Collaborative software; Computer industry; Industrial economics; Industrial relations; Open source software; Production systems; Programming; Systems engineering and theory; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.3028

Filename

4681217