[FYI] Internet, Innovation and Open Source: Actors in the Network

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_1/tuomi/index.html

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Internet, Innovation and Open Source:
Actors in the Network

By Ilkka Tuomi

This paper describes the evolution of the Linux operating system, and 
studies dynamics of socio-technical change using Linux as a case 
example. Theoretical models of community-based practice and learning 
are combined with actor-network theory, and the characteristics of 
the open source development model are described using the introduced 
theoretical concepts. The paper analyses the growth and development 
of Linux and its development community, and shows how the development 
community evolves into an ecology of community-centered practices.  

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