NDLI: Proprietary vs. open standards in the network era: an examination of the Linux phenomenon

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	West, J. Dedrick, J.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Center for Res. on Inf. Technol. & Organ., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA (West, J.; Dedrick, J.)
Abstract	For networked IT industries, standards adoption is a key prerequisite for attracting complementary assets. Producer firms that hope to profit from their standards success must trade off control of the standard against the imperative for adoption. Moschella outlines three eras of modern computing: systems personal computers and network, each with its own form of standards competition. During the systems era of computing, mainframe producers maximized their control by offering vertically integrated standards architectures. In the PC era, IBM unintentionally surrendered control to two key suppliers in its haste to launch the IBM PC and maximize its adoption. Microsoft and Intel in turn sought pervasive adoption of their technologies by appropriating only a single layer of the standards architecture and publishing a subset of the interfaces to other layers. In reaction to these proprietary strategies, the open source movement developed software that relinquishes control in favor of adoption. Such free software has played an important role in Internet infrastructure, and its adherents argue that it will supplant such proprietary standards in the network era. This study examines the rise of the Linux operating system, with particular focus on its role as a PC server operating system in competition with the established Microsoft Windows OS. While Linux has its origins in the 1984 GNU Project, and was widely available beginning in 1993, we focus on the adoption motivations of organizational buyers and suppliers of complementary assets during the period 1995-1999.
Sponsorship	Univ. Hawaii College of Bus. Adm
File Size	91900
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769509819
DOI	10.1109/HICSS.2001.926525
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-01-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Linux Computer architecture Open source software Operating systems Electrical equipment industry Computer networks Microcomputers Control systems Appropriate technology Standards publication
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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