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Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 7
p. 196a
The Mysteries of Open Source Software: Black and White and Red All Over?
Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland
Pär J. Ågerfalk, University of Limerick, Ireland
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Open Source Software (OSS) has attracted enormous
media and research attention since the term was coined in
February 1998. The concept itself is founded on the
paradoxical premise that software source code-the
'crown jewels' for many proprietary software
companies-should be provided freely to anyone who
wishes to see it. Given this fundamental initial paradox, it
is perhaps hardly surprising that the OSS concept is
characterised by contradictions, paradoxes and tensions
throughout. In this paper we focus specifically on the
following issues in relation to OSS: the cathedral v.
bazaar development approach; collectivism v.
individualism, the bitter strife within the OSS community
itself (OSS v. OSS), and between OSS and the Free
Software Foundation (OSS v. FSF); whether OSS
represents a paradigm shift in the software industry;
whether the software is truly open-the Berkeley
Conundrum, as we have termed it here; whether OSS
truly is high quality software; and whether OSS is a 'one
size fits all,' representing the future model for all software development.
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Citation:
Brian Fitzgerald, Pär J. Ågerfalk,
"The Mysteries of Open Source Software: Black and White and Red All Over?,"
hicss,
p. 196a,
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 7,
2005
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