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Spring 2008

College of Business, Kent State University
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Course description

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[edit] Announcements

[edit] Class Schedules

[edit] 16 January 2008: Introduction

Class format and expectations

[edit] 23 January 2008: Introduction to Open Source

Steven Weber: Chapters 1-2
Richard Stallman: GNU Manifesto, available at: [1]

[edit] 30 January 2008: Open Source as a Production Process

Weber, Chapters 3-4
Karl Fogel, Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project (2006), Chaps. 3-4, available at [2]
Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, available at: [3]

[edit] 6 February 2008: Economics of Open Source

Weber, Chapters 5-6

[edit] 13 February 2008: Open Source and the General Public License

GNU General Public License (GPL), available at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
GPL 3 is available at http://gplv3.fsf.org/
Margaret Jane Radin, Humans, Computers, and Binding Commitment, 75 Ind. L. Rev. 1125 (2000), available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Contract/Radin_Full.html
Mitchell L. Stoltz, The Penguin Paradox: How the Scope of Derivative Works in Copyright Affects the Effectiveness of the GNU GPL, 85 B.U. L. Rev. 1439 (2005), available at http://www.bu.edu/law/lawreview/v85n5/Stoltz.pdf

[edit] 20 February 2008: Open Source Business Models

Weber, Chapter 7-8

[edit] 27 February 2008: Open Source and Software Industry

Ronald Mann, The Commercialization of Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?, 20 Harv. J. L. & Tech., available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=802805
IBM Corp., Open Source and Linux, available at http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/industry/opensource.shtml
Pamela Samuelson, IBM’s Pragmatic Embrace of Open Source, 49 Comm. ACM, available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/CACM%20IBM%20open%20source.pdf
Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, in THE COMMODIFICATION OF INFORMATION 107 (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Weinstock Netanel, eds. 2002), available at: http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html

[edit] 5 March 2008: Open Source and Software Industry (cont.)

Sean Silverthorne, Microsoft v. Open Source: Who Will Win?, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, available at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4834&t=technology
Open Source Software: Microsoft at the Power Point, The Economist, Sept. 11, 2003, available at http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2054746 Need to get full document link.
Tim O'Reilly, Open Source Paradigm Shift, available at: http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html
Ray Ozzie, The Internet Services Disruption, Oct. 28, 2005, available at http://www.scripting.com/disruption/ozzie/TheInternetServicesDisruptio.htm

[edit] 12 March 2008: Government Policy Toward Open Source

Committee for Economic Development, Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness (April 2006), available at [4]

[edit] 26 March 2008: Open Access Journals and Publications

Peter Suber, Open Access Overview, available at [5]
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., What is Open Access?, available at [6]
David J. Solomon, Strategies for Developing Sustainable Open Access Scholarly Journals, First Monday, available at [7]
Jessica Litman, The Economics of Open-Access Law Publishing, Lewis & Clark L. Rev, available at [8]

Recommended:

Patrick O. Brown, Michael B. Eisen, Harold E. Varmus, Why PLoS Became a Publisher, available at [9]
Charlotte Tschider, Investigating the “Public” in the Public Library of Science: Gifting Economics in the Internet Community, First Monday, available at [10]

[edit] 2 April 2008: Open Source Biology

David Opderbeck, The Penguin’s Genome, or Coase and Open Source Biotechnology, 18 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 167 (2004), available at [11]
Stephen M. Maurer, Arti Rai, & Andrej Sali, Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source the Answer?, 1 PLoS Medicine 180 (Dec. 2004), available at [12]

Recommended:

Arti Rai, Open and Collaborative Research: A New Model for Biomedicine, in Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries 131 (Robert W. Hahn ed., AEI-Brookings Press 2005), available at: [13]

[edit] 9 April 2008: Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_Pillars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines
How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elizabeth Bower, and Kizu Naoko, available at http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html
Denise Anthony, Sean Smith, & Tim Williamson, Explaining Quality in Internet Collective Goods: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the Case of Wikipedia (Nov. 2005), available at http://web.mit.edu/iandeseminar/Papers/Fall2005/anthony.pdf.
Jaron Lanier, Digital Maoism: Hazards of the Collective Mind, The Edge, 5/30/06, available at http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html
Selected responses to Lanier’s article (Quentin Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Larry Sanger, Viegas and Wattenberg, & Jimmy Wales), available at http://www.edge.org/discourse/digital_maoism.html

[edit] 16 April 2008: Social Production of Music and Other Digital Content

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (2006), Chap. 1, available at [14]
Creative Commons Licenses, [15]
CC Mixter, [16]
Niva Elkin-Koren, Exploring Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit, in The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law (2006), available at [17]
Zachary Katz, Pitfalls of Open Licensing: An Analysis of Creative Commons Licensing, 46 IDEA 391

[edit] 23 April 2008: User-Created Value and Virtual Economies

Mia Garlick, Creative Commons presentation in Second Life, April 24, 2006. "Age of the Conducer," transcript available at [18]
Second Life Terms of Service, available at [19]
Cory Ondrejka, Escaping the Gilded Cage: User Created Content and Building the Metaverse, 49 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 81 (2004), available at [20]
Dan Hunter & F. Gregory Lastowka, The Laws of the Virtual Worlds, 92 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2004), available at [21]

Recommended:

Clickable Culture (focus on articles on Second Life), [22]

[edit] 30 April 2008: Student Presentations

[edit] Assignments

Class participation, and mini assignments
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Project

Your responsibilities include reading assigned articles, class participation, including Wiki editing, two assignments, and one final project. Your grade will be based on one-third class participation and mini assignments, one-third total for the two assignments, and one-third for the project.

Only selective readings have been assigned. As such, students are expected to think and reflect on the material carefully. The tone and content of class discussions will reflect that expectation. Most weeks, you will be given a mini-assignment that encourages you to explore many of the Open Source concepts discussed in class. As part of the assignment, you will be asked to summarize your experiences on this wiki.

In addition, each week I will ask one or more students to write short entries about the readings for that week on the class wiki. Please post your response on your assigned week before class that week. I hope that with enough eyes and input, this wiki becomes a valuable resource about Open Source. So, please comment freely in class and on the wiki about any resources that you feel are valuable towards our understanding of Open Source.