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Open-source software: Open-source software is software with its source code made publicly available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. This open collaboration fosters transparency, innovation, and rapid bug fixing. See also Software, Internet, Internet culture, Science, Progress, Innovation, Cooperation.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Clay Shirky on Open Source Software - Dictionary of Arguments

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Open Source Software/Shirky: Because open source software is based on peer production, work on it can be much more experimental and cost effective. Companies cannot afford it. Why? Open systems reduce the cost of failure, they do not create tendencies towards predictable but suboptimal solutions and they make it easier to integrate contributions coming from people who only make this single contribution.
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Open Source does not reduce the possibilities of failure, but rather the costs that failure causes. This corresponds to the pattern "Publish first, then filter". (See Wikipedia/Shirky).


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Shirky I
Clay Shirky
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations New York 2009


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