Black Oak Books event

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

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- Thursday April 22 7:30 pm
- Steven Weber , Professor of Political Science at the University of Ca,
 , explains the political and economic dynamics of a mysterious but
important market development in his fascinating book, The Success of Open
Source . Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet is the
result of M-^Sopen sourceM-^T code--code that is freely distributed as opposed
to being kept secret. This development not only poses a significant threat to
Microsoft in the marketplace, but has subverted many assumptions about how
businesses are run, and how intellectual products are created and produced.
Weber argues that this success of the open source community is not a freakish
exception to economic principles, but is guided by standards, rules,
decisionmaking procedures, and sanctioning mechanisms of its own.