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[ Economics ] Political Economy of Open Source Communities

Lots of people have said lots of things about open source communities.

Among the books I have seen on shelves and articles in books and online, I've been wanting to read Steven Weber's 2004 book The Success of Open Source but time has never allowed.

Finally, I've been able to start and finish the first 15 pages of Weber's book, and I can tell you that it has all the right elements and sources for its analysis of the political economy of open source communities. Mancur Olson's work, transaction cost economists', Chester Barnard's and others' are weaved together beautifully in those pages.

I look forward to reading more of it as time allows, and I'll be quoting from Weber, here.

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[ Technology ] Where It is @

Tune in to Simon Phipps' SDNtv's special program on open source databases where senior database engineers at Sun speak about free, open-source databases embedded and bundled in Sun products:

Josh Berkus speaks about PosgreSQL, MySQL and Sun's open source database group.

Rick Hillegas (Apache/Derby committer) talks to Simon about Apache/Derby's history, community work and uses of Derby.

Francois Orsini explains the relationship between Java DB and Apache/Derby and describes some example applications for this pure-Java database.

Lots of material gets covered in these three short, video interviews!

 

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