Making Money with Open-Source Business Initiatives

2011 ◽  
pp. 555-561
Author(s):  
Paul Benjamin Lowry ◽  
Akshay Grover ◽  
Chris Madsen ◽  
Jeff Larkin ◽  
William Robins
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Proprietary Software ◽  
Open Source License ◽  
General Public License

Open-source software (OSS) is software that can be used freely in the public domain but is often copyrighted by the original authors under an open-source license such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). Given its free nature, one might believe that OSS is inherently inferior to proprietary software, yet this often is not the case. Many OSS applications are superior or on par with their proprietary competitors (e.g., MySQL, Apache Server, Linux, and Star Office). OSS is a potentially disruptive technology (Christensen, 1997) because it is often cheaper, more reliable, simpler, and more convenient than proprietary software.

Making Money with Open-Source Business Initiatives

2008 ◽  
pp. 1344-1352
Author(s):  
Paul Benjamin Lowry ◽  
Akshay Grover ◽  
Chris Madsen ◽  
Jeff Larkin ◽  
William Robins
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Proprietary Software ◽  
Open Source License ◽  
General Public License

Open-source software (OSS) is software that can be used freely in the public domain but is often copyrighted by the original authors under an open-source license such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). Given its free nature, one might believe that OSS is inherently inferior to proprietary software, yet this often is not the case. Many OSS applications are superior or on par with their proprietary competitors (e.g., MySQL, Apache Server, Linux, and Star Office). OSS is a potentially disruptive technology (Christensen, 1997) because it is often cheaper, more reliable, simpler, and more convenient than proprietary software.

scholarly journals FENOMENA LINUX, SUATU TEROBOSAN NETWORK ORGANIZATION DALAM ERA PEMASARAN RELASIONAL

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudi Anandya
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
General Public ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Network Organization ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
General Public License

Linux is an operating system that it's presence offer many "new concepts" to the market. It’s an open source software developed under GNU project using General Public License (GPL), that gives everyone freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change, and improve the software. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix”; it is pronounced “guh-NEW", In Other way we can say that Linux developed, manufactured, and distributed by it's own costumers. They joined together in the Linux communities and create a network among them. It has a unique lateral pattern of relationship. The Author named all of this as the “Linux Phenomenon". This articles will begin by explaining theories about network, and then discuss the and then discuss the Linux phenomenon. Later, the author will explore the Linux's "breakthrough" in networking, and the implication of "how to do business".

Digital Library and Repositories

2010 ◽  
pp. 184-205
Author(s):  
Bharat Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Searching ◽  
Custom Made

This chapter discusses digital libraries and repositories. The purpose of this research is to identify digital libraries and repositories in India available in the public domain. It highlights the state of digital libraries and repositories in India. The digital libraries and repositories were identified through a study of the literature, as well as internet searching and browsing. The resulting digital libraries and repositories were explored to study their collections. Use of open source software especially for the creation of institutional repositories is found to be common. However, major digital library initiatives such as the Digital Library of India use custom-made software.

Comparing Open Source Digital Library Software

2009 ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pyrounakis ◽  
Mara Nikolaidou
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
The Public ◽  
Open Source License ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Score Table

In the last years, a great number of digital library and digital repository systems have been developed by individual organizations, mostly universities, and given to the public as open-source software. The advantage of having many choices becomes a great headache when selecting a digital library (DL) system for a specific organization. To make the decision easier, five well-known and extensively used systems that are publicly available using an open source license are compared, namely DSpace, Fedora, Greenstone, Keystone, and EPrints. Each of them have been thoroughly studied based on basic characteristics and system features emphasizing multiple and heterogeneous digital collection support. Results are summarized in a score table. Cases for which each of these systems is considered as the most suitable are proposed.

scholarly journals Community and Commercial Strategies in Open Source Software

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony I. Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Proprietary Software ◽  
Open Source License ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Primary Focus

AbstractThis paper describes the recent evolution of business strategies used by companies offering products and services based on free and open source software (FOSS). The primary focus is on companies that develop and release products under an open source license. The paper compares their practices with traditional proprietary software companies and with community-based open source projects, and identifies growing overlaps between the different kinds of software companies. Finally, the paper describes the likely impact of recent technology developments in mobile and cloud computing on open source software and related business.

scholarly journals UTM, a universal simulator for lightcurves of transiting systems

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S253) ◽  
pp. 388-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Deeg
Keyword(s):  
Light Curve ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Be Stars ◽  
Variable Parameters ◽  
The Public ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
General Public License ◽  
Planetary Moons

AbstractThe Universal Transit Modeller (UTM) is a light-curve simulator for all kinds of transiting or eclipsing configurations between arbitrary numbers of several types of objects, which may be stars, planets, planetary moons, and planetary rings. Applications of UTM to date have been mainly in the generation of light-curves for the testing of detection algorithms. For the preparation of such test for the Corot Mission, a special version has been used to generate multicolour light-curves in Corot's passbands. A separate fitting program, UFIT (Universal Fitter) is part of the UTM distribution and may be used to derive best fits to light-curves for any set of continuously variable parameters. UTM/UFIT is written in IDL code and its source is released in the public domain under the GNU General Public License.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI GLPI (GESTIONNAIRE LIBRE DE PARC INFORMATIQUE) UNTUK LAYANAN IT, MANAJEMEN ASET DAN RESERVASI ASET

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwika Nur Ridlo Robby
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
General Public ◽  
Management System ◽  
It Management ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Service Desk ◽  
General Public License

The purpose of this research is to implement IT asset management and tools using open source software. The software used is GLPI (Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique), an Asset and IT management system package that provides the Service Desk, License Tracking and Software Audit features. GLPI is a free asset and IT management software, a software for asset management, with an additional interface for filing requests and also for reporting related to IT technicians who write in php language and are distributed under the GPL license (General Public License).

scholarly journals An open impediment: Navigating copyright and OER publishing in the academic library

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Lindsey Gumb
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
General Public License

Academic libraries around the world are leading the way to support the adoption, revision, and creation of open educational resources (OER), both saving students money and encouraging pedagogical innovation in the classroom. While there are varying definitions depending on the organization, it is generally accepted that a resource used for teaching, learning, or research can be considered an OER if it is both free and openly-licensed under Creative Commons (CC), general public license, or is in the public domain.

scholarly journals Rechtliche Voraussetzungen der Nutzung von Open-Source-Software in der öffentlichen Verwaltung, insbesondere des Kantons Bern

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Poledna ◽  
Simon Schlauri ◽  
Samuel Schweizer
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
The State ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Open Source License ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Legal Foundations

This study was written by three legal practitioners in the context of a study and answers the question of whether it is permissible under current law for the state to make software that it uses itself and whose copyright it holds available to the public under an "open source" license, or at which federal level and at which level of standardization appropriate legal foundations would have to be created. The basis is the situation in the canton of Bern (Switzerland) and according to the Swiss Federal Constitution.

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