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== Academic Work == | == Academic Work == | ||
Most academic | * Most academic work basically started where Raymond left off (e.g., von Hippel or Lakhani) | ||
* But there are a few awkward facts about this (e.g., Healy and Schussman) | |||
It's still early days and most people start with, "Isn't openness great?", how can understand it's success? | |||
But this work ends up selecting on the dependent variable. | |||
I'm religious about free software issues from an ethical position. But I don't believe it's inherently better. I'm concerned instead with how we make it better. I'm interested in looking at the variation in project success and in the barriers to cooperation, sharing, reuse, and recombination -- all those things that von Hippel has already showed can play an important role. | I'm religious about free software issues from an ethical position. But I don't believe it's inherently better. I'm concerned instead with how we make it better. I'm interested in looking at the variation in project success and in the barriers to cooperation, sharing, reuse, and recombination -- all those things that von Hippel has already showed can play an important role. |