How Attitudes Change: A Primer for Faculty Developers

Law : A Primer for Developers by Fred

What this is not: The following discussion focuses only on U.S. copyright law. While noncopyright principles may also be mentioned, this discussion does not attempt to examine other legal principles that might apply to P2P filesharing, including patent, trademark, trade secret, or unfair competition. Nothing contained herein constitutes legal advice—please discuss your individual situation with...

How well do experienced software developers predict software change?

Assessing Faculty Attitudes Toward Technological Change in Graduate Management Education

Distance learning has come a long way since Sir Isaac Pitman initiated the first correspondence course in the early 1840s. The changing demands of the global business community call for new and innovative learning systems for enhancing graduate management education. Learning technologies offer an approach for meeting these challenges. However, faculty resistance to change can represent a major ...

How free software developers work

This configuration leads to questions on the characteristics of the collective action that enables the transition from individual voluntary commitments that are potentially volatile and unstable to the completion of a collective production that involves continuity and sustainability. The production of free software cannot be considered the contingent result of a spontaneous convergence of indiv...

How Developers Acquire FLOSS Skills

With the increasing prominence of open collaboration as found in free/libre/open source software projects and other joint production communities, potential participants need to acquire skills. How these skills are learned has received little research attention. This article presents a large-scale survey (5,309 valid responses) in which users and developers of the beta release of a popular file ...