.... KEYWORDS Computer Ethics Intellectual property Open source software e-governance Remmele: The Moral Framework of Cyberspace 1. INFORMATION AND TRANSACTION COSTS This behaviour initiated many attempts to explain it. The initial contributions to the social science literature on open source and free software...

...F S Grodzinsky; K Miller; M J Wolf In this essay we argue that the current social and ethical structure in the Open Source Software (OSS) Community stem from its roots in academia. The individual developers experience a level of autonomy similar to that of a faculty member. Furthermore, we assert...

... inception in the hacker ethic , freeware has had a huge impact on IT businesses around the world, most strongly in the guise of its spin-off, open source software. The eventual consequences are that, for example, more than 60% of all the servers on the World Wide Web are running the Apache open source...