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The Commons as New Economy & What This Means for Research

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gabriel, R.P.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Suppose the entire social and commercial fabric supporting the creation of software is changing-changing by becoming completely a commons and thereby dropping dramatically in cost. How would the world change and how would we recognize the changes? Software would not be continually recreated by different organizations, so the global "efficiency" of software production would increase dramatically; therefore it would be possible to create value without waste, experimentation and risk-taking would become affordable-and probably necessary because firms could not charge for their duplication of infrastructure-, and the size and complexity of built systems would increase dramatically, perhaps beyond human comprehension. As important or more so, the activities of creating software would become the provenance of people, organizations, and disciplines who today are mostly considered consumers of software-there would, in a very real sense, be only a single software system in existence, continually growing; it would be an ecology husbanded along by economists, sociologists, governments, clubs, communities, and herds of disciplines. New business models would be developed, perhaps at an alarming rate. How should we design our research to observe and understand this change? There is some evidence the change is underway, as the result of the adoption of open source by companies who are not merely appreciative receivers of gifts from the evangelizers of open source, but who are clever thieves re-purposing the ideas and making up new ones of their own.
Starting Page	10
Ending Page	10
File Size	152445
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769529615
DOI	10.1109/FLOSS.2007.14
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-05-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Production systems Costs Biological system modeling Government Humans Companies Software systems Fabrics Environmental factors Business
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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