Lawyers in the Bazaar: Challenges and Opportunities for Open Source Legal Communities

Open-source Hardware: Opportunities and Challenges

Innovation in hardware is slowing due to rising costs of chip design and diminishing benefits from Moore’s law and Dennard scaling. Software innovation, on the other hand, is flourishing, helped in good measure by a thriving open-source ecosystem. We believe that open source can similarly help hardware innovation, but has not yet due to several reasons. We identify these reasons and how the ind...

Open-source software opportunities and challenges.

Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is an imposing business reality but only an emerging discipline of business research. Critical questions have been so far only tangentially investigated and were mostly left to IT columnists and consultants to deal with, generally in a partisan fashion. Such important issues include the viability of FLOSS business models, the impact of FLOSS on the softwa...

Tamil Open-Source Landscape - Opportunities and Challenges

General tenet of Open-Source and FreeSoftware originally founded by pioneers like Richard Stallman and Eric. S. Raymond [1a,b] continues to rely on collective good of developing software in open and creatively monetizing it outside of closed-source traditional models. Tamil open-source software has its roots from various GNU/Linux user-groups across Tamilnadu [2a], and individuals motivated by ...

Exploring the Open Source Software Bazaar

Open Source Resources in Education: Opportunities and Challenges, Norm Friesen

The education community has been at the forefront in envisioning and conceptualizing infrastructures intended for utilizing and sharing digital content or resources. However, this community has faced challenges in making these visions a reality. We begin by describing a relatively early attempt at creating an economy for sharing educational resources, referred to as learning objects. We then di...