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The vital field of open-source software has proven itself a massive global incubator for innovation. With no barriers to entry, nearly anyone can join in and make huge contributions to a field. Yet, many of today's public and private enterprises inhibit this type of rapid, and necessary, innovation. This book provides a new model, and with it new strategies for identifying problems, breaking them down into the right questions, directing resources in research and development, interpreting results, disseminating information, manufacturing and distributing products, and commercializing future tech that can bring the knowledge commons to innovation for social, cultural, and economic advantage.
Table des matières
An Updated Perspective on How Open Source Works and Fails. The Roots and New Implications of the Open Source Movement. The Paradox of Incentives. The Problem with Intellectual Property. Emerging Open Source Models. The Role of Human Ingenuity in a Technocentric Culture. Why the Open Source Model is the Lynchpin to Future Tech Innovation. When Tradition is Rejected: The Tesla Model. The Big Guns Go All Open Source: Apple and other “Evil Empires”. An Unlikely Affair: Open Source Cybersecurity Software, Data and Global Security. The Collaborative Enterprise. The Virtual Reality of Open Source Living, Creativity and Gamification. The Practice: How Open Source Communities Incentivize and Self Regulate. The Role of Ethics, Law, and Enforcement in the Commons. What the Knowledge Commons Means to Future Tech. The Valley of Death: Commercialization Issues, Non cooptation, and Non-appropriation. How Open Source Allows Creativity to Flow and Changes Business. How Open Source is the Future of Sustainability for the Planet, People, Natural Systems, and Economies. A Thought Experiment: The Future Commons for Future Tech.
A propos de l'auteur
Carol L. Stimmel is the founder and CEO of Manifest Mind, a New York corporation. Her responsibilities include managing key
industry and client relationships, driving research topics, and personal contributions to consulting engagements and research reports.
Carol has 25 years of experience in emerging technology markets including operating roles as well as extensive experience in market
intelligence and analysis.
Don Sherwood Olson’s twentyeight years of progressive technical experience and leadership in software engineering, as architect,
designer, programmer, team leader, tester, and trainer marry with a second career as a writer and academic. He has worked as a lead
or principal software engineer in fields as diverse as rocket engine controls, flight avionics, and satellite-based communication
systems. He was the managing member of Catamount Consulting, LLC, for several years, consulting on software systems. Currently
he serves as a Web designer and developer with Northern Arizona University’s Information Technology Services and also teaches as
an adjunct lecturer in the English and Honors programs at the university.
