Internet, Innovation And Open Source:actors In The Network

TOPICS COVERED

Listing of topics covered in each paragraph and section

Introduction

6 paragraphs:

p1 — Media Attention , Open Source versus Proprietary Software , Corporate Investment , Quality and Best Practices

p2 — Intellectual Property Rights , GNU General Public License , Continuous Improvement

p3 — CTSS , ARPANET , J.C.R. Licklider and Robert Taylor , the influence of Online Communities and Computer Programming on Society , Work , Human Thinking , Security and Privacy

p4 — Intellectual Property Rights and access to Source Code , "a rapidly changing world where commercial appropriation of Research And Development investments has become increasingly difficult"

p5 — discusses Copyright as a Social Institution , introduces concepts of Interactivity of Actant s (social actors) and the theory of " Co-evolution of social and technical systems"

p6 — , more on Actant s, Collaboration , Interaction and Actor-network Theory evolving into the " Open Source Development Model "

Thought communities: a brief review

11 paragraphs:

p1 — Here Tuomi explains that knowledge has no basis outside of a Social Context and is itself, a product of Social Processes "embedded in social practices, conceptual systems, and material artifacts that are used in social practices" He talks about the co-evolution of Technology , Social Practice , and Knowledge

p2 — Tuomi cites Bakhtin's treatment in the 1930s of Genre s and how they allow the Co-evolution of concepts and knowledge and their use in a socio-cultural context.

p3 — Contends citing Ludwik Fleck also in the 1930s that "thought communities" are built from interdependent " Conceptualization s, practices, and technologies" which in turn are given meaning, through a long historical process by thought communities.

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Actor-network theory and reduction of complexity

5 paragraphs:

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Evolution of Linux development resources

8 paragraphs and Figure 1:

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--- Figure 1: Key resource producing actors in early Linux development , a timeline of Linux , ARPANET , USENET ...

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Growth of Linux

1 paragraphs and Figure 2:

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Figure 2: Growth of the Linux kernel.

Linux developer community

1 paragraph and Figure 3:

p1 — History Of Linux Collaboration Internet-based Tools

--- Figure 3: Early key developers in different countries , a graph of people by country based on analyzing the First CREDITS File that recorded key authors in 1994

Sedimentation of source code

7 paragraphs and Figure 4:

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Figure 4: Resource and object development paths

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Structural evolution of the Linux architecture

11 paragraphs and Figures 5,6 and 7:

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Proliferation of resources and actants

9 paragraphs and Table 1:

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Discussion

9 paragraphs:

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