Titlebook: Reusing Open Source Code; Value Creation and V Manuel Sojer Book 2011 Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011 In

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Introduction,n 1998 open source software (OSS) has come a long way, evolving into a major social and economic phenomenon. For example, the infrastructure of the internet is largely based on OSS programs such as Apache HTTP Server or sendmail and on the consumer side 25% of all internet users surf the web with th

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Conclusion,ated software for Linksys’ WRT54G router which later became part of Cisco’s product portfolio when Linksys was acquired. Two aspects of this software development activity are noteworthy. First, the developer did not create all of the software from scratch, but reused existing OSS code freely availab

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Introduction,e OSS browser Firefox (Net Applications 2010). Commercially, Fauscette (2009) estimates the revenues generated with OSS products in 2008 at nearly $3 billion. Finally, the development platform SourceForge.net (2010) hosted the impressive number of over 225,000 OSS projects in April 2010.

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2627-1168 A recent facet of this topic is the increasing importance of reusing open source code which is often available free of charge via download from the internet, but brings along legal risks through its licenses. In this setting Manuel Sojer empirically investigates which factors influence software dev

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,Commercial software developers’ perspectives on internet code reuse,e the share of knowledge reused in their products and services, typically assuming implicitly that this is in the best interest of the firm (see Chapter 3 for a review of existing literature following this tradition).

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