Section 1. Culture, Society, and Open Source Software -- 1. Free Software Philosophy and Open Source -- 2. Greasemonkey and a Challenge to Notions of Authorship -- 3. Morality and Pragmatism in Free Software and Open Source -- 4. Hacker Culture and the FLOSS Innovation -- 5. Social Technologies and the Digital Commons -- 6. ALBA Architecture as Proposal for OSS Collaborative Science -- 7. Evaluating the Potential of Free and Open Source Software in the Developing World -- 8. Open Source Software: A Developing Country View -- 9. The Social and Economical Impact of OSS in Developing Countries --

Section 2. Development Models and Methods for Open Source Software Production -- 10. Dependencies, Networks, and Priorities in an Open Source Project -- 11. Patchwork Prototyping with Open Source Software -- 12. An Agile Perspective on Open Source Software Engineering -- 13. A Model for the Successful Migration to Desktop OSS -- 14. The Social Order of Open Source Software Production --

Section 3. Evaluating Open Source Software Products and Uses -- 15. Open Source Software: Strengths and Weaknesses -- 16. Open Source Software Evaluation -- 17. Open Source Web Portals -- 18. Curious Exceptions? Open Source Software and Open Technology -- 19. Reducing Transaction Costs with GLW Infrastructure -- 20. Issues to Consider when Choosing Open Source Content Management Systems (CMSs) -- 21. Evaluating Open Source Software through Prototyping -- 22. Motives and Methods for Quantitative FLOSS Research -- 23. A Generalized Comparison of Open Source and Commercial Database Management Systems -- 24. Evaluation of a Migration to Open Source Software --

Section 4. Laws and Licensing Practices Affecting Open Source Software Uses -- 25. Legal and Economic Justification for Software Protection -- 26. OSS Adoption in the Legal Services Community -- 27. The Road of Computer Code Featuring the Political Economy of Copyleft and Legal Analysis of the General Public License -- 28. The Evolution of Free Software -- 29. Free Access to Law and Open Source Software -- 30. Examining Open Source Software Licenses through the Creative Commons Licensing Model -- 31. FLOSS Legal and Engineering Terms and a License Taxonomy --

Section 5. Public Policy, the Public Sector, and Government Perspectives on Open Source Software -- 32. On the Role of Public Policies Supporting Free/Open Source Software -- 33. Use of OSS by Local E-Administration: The French Situation -- 34. Issues and Aspects of Open Source Software Usage and Adoption in the Public Sector -- 35. The Labor Politics of Scratching an Itch -- 36. Open Source Technology and Ideology in the Nonprofit Context -- 37. Governance and the Open Source Repository --

Section 6. Business Approaches and Applications Involving Open Source Software -- 38. Analyzing Firm Participation in Open Source Communities -- 39. Community Customers -- 40. Open Source Software Business Models and Customer Involvement Economics -- 41. Investing in Open Source Software Companies: Deal Making from a Venture Capitalist's Perspective -- 42. Revenue Models in the Open Source Software Business -- 43. Open Source for Accounting and Enterprise Systems -- 44. Open Source Software and the Corporate World -- 45. Business Models in Open Source Software Value Creation -- 46. Novell’s Open Source Evolution --

Section 7. Educational Perspectives and Practices Related to Open Source Software -- 47. Communities of Practice for Open Source Software -- 48. Selecting Open Source Software for Use in Schools -- 49. Open Source E-Learning Systems: Evaluation of Features and Functionality -- 50. The Role of Open Source Software in Open Access Publishing -- 51. An Innovative Desktop OSS Implementation in a School -- 52. Rapid Insertion of Leading Edge Industrial Strength Software into University Classrooms -- 53. Wikis as an Exemplary Model of Open Source Learning -- 54. A Perspective on Software Engineering Education with Open Source Software -- About the Contributors -- Index.