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Revision as of 13:47, 3 May 2006
.The group that selects this topic as thiers please put your name and composition here! .Then place your 20 research questions .Then divide the questions amoungst the group and answer them in this page! (to be done for next week Thursday - 4 May)
GROUP COMPOSITION
We are the MBA students from the Amsterdam Business School UvA. Our Group comprises of:
- Chikako Okada
- Shubhra Deshmukh
- Sonja Srubar
- Yin-Chen Hsu
INTRODUCTION
Two models of software creation are locked in a battle to the end. Will most software be created as proprietary systems or created as open source in all it hybrid forms. Can 25 000 best in class developers in Redmond produce a superior operating system in contrast to a million registered Linux amateur developers? At the heart of the debate are conceptions of ownership, creativity, professionalism, and the consumer economy. Will software patents make a comeback, as a possible limitation of open source in the future? Is there a third way, with open standards such as used in MPEG4 and by SAP?
UNCERTAINTIES
The software creation is plagued with different uncertainities. These can be grouped into following:
- Technological Uncertainities
- Impact of Industry
- Impact of Government
- Impact of Economic conditions
These are elaborated in next section.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- Is the open source easy to develop than closed source
- Who would be responsible for Maintenance?
- What is importance of copyright?
- Can software created on open-source OS be copy righted?
- Problems of Monopoly in case of closed source?
- How does open standards used in MPEG4 and SAP work? Does this mean part of these software is changeable/copyrighted while is part is not?
- What role does industry play?
- What does it support?
- Mixing of the open and closed source- effect on industry as whole, why firms want to do it?
- Does system thinking works in open source development?
- Are there any reliability issues with open-source software?
- Security issues in open source
- Future of coexistence of Linux and windows
- What role does government play in this debate?
- Which type of software creation will it support?
- How does society influence creation of software?