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July 2, 2003
Benefits of Open Source Quantified
Nature: "'Closed-source' software, finessed by staff hired to work on information that users send in, requires higher-quality programmers and more users to attain the same level of perfection as open-source software in a comparable time."
The paper linked above seems to vindicate the argument my colleague Yochai Benkler makes in Coases's Penguin, a law review article you can find on his site. Yochai has done some fantastic work on the political and information economy of open source as well as spectrum policy.
Posted by Kevin Werbach at July 2, 2003 12:15 PM
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