Contents

• • • Contents
    • Introduction
    • A brief history of open source software
    • What is open source software?
      • General idea of open source software
      • Open source software licences
      • Case study of a non open source licence: SCSL
    • Development models
      • The cathedral and the bazaar
      • Developers motivation
      • Advantages of open source software
      • Perceived disadvantages of open source models
      • Cooperation and competition
    • Economics of open source
      • New economic models: Externally funded ventures
      • New economic models: Internally funded or revenue based
      • New economic models: Unfunded developments
      • New economic models: Internal use
      • Impact of open source in the total cost of ownership
      • The big (macro-economic) picture
      • Open source software and renewed competition in the software market
    • Intellectual property
      • Open source and copyright law
      • Open source and software patents
    • Some specific impacts of open source technology
      • Promotion of de-facto and de-jure standards
      • Diffusion of information technology
      • Availability of more secure systems
      • Impact in less developed countries
    • Some possible scenarios for the future of open source
      • No action scenario
      • Limited support scenario
      • Aggressive scenario
    • Recommendations by the working group
      • Technical issues
      • Organization and support
      • Legal issues
      • Training, promotion and explanation of benefits
      • General remarks
    • Conclusions
    • Some licences
      • The Debian Free Software Guidelines
      • BSD licence
      • X Window System (X Consortium) licence
      • GNU General Public License
    • Some business case examples
      • Matra Datavision: towards an open source business model
      • ACT and ACT Europe
    • Some dates of the open source software history
    • Bibliography