Forward : The many questions from open source software / Stefan Koch --
Preface : Software in the modern context / Kirk St. Amant, Brian Still --
section 1. Culture, society, and open source software --
ch. 1. Free software philosophy and open source / Niklas Vainio and Tere Vadén --
ch. 2. Greasemonkey and challenges to authorship / Brian Ballentine --
ch 3. Morality and pragmatism in free software and open source / Dave Yeats --
ch. 4. Hacker culture and the FLOSS innovation / Yu-Wei Lin --
ch. 5. Social technologies and the digital commons / Francesca da Rimini --
ch. 6. ALBA architecture as proposal for OSS collaborative science / Andrea Bosin, Nicoletta Dessì, Maria Grazia Fugini, Diego Liberati, and Barbara Pes --
7. Evaluating the potential of free and open source software in the developing world / Victor van Reijswoud and Emmanuel Mulo --
ch. 8. Open source software : a developing country view / Jennifer Papin-Ramcharan and Frank Soodeen --
ch. 9. The social and economical impact of open source software in developing countries / Alfreda Dudley-Sponaugle, Sungchul Hong, and Yuanqiong Wang.
section 2. Development models and methods for open source software production --
ch. 10. Dependencies, networks, and priorities in an open source project / Juha Järvensivu, Nina Helander, and Tommi Mikkonen --
ch. 11. Patchwork prototyping with open source software / M. Cameron Jones, Ingbert R. Floyd, and Michael B. Twidale --
ch. 12. Agile perspective on open source software engineering / Sofiane Sahraoui, Noor Al-Nahas, and Rania Suleiman --
ch. 13. Model for the successful migration to desktop OSS / Daniel Brink, Llewellyn Roos, Jean-Paul Van Belle, and James Weller --
ch. 14. Social order of open source software production / Jochen Gläser.
section 3. Evaluating open source software products and uses --
ch. 15. Open source software : strengths and weaknesses / Zippy Erlich and Reuven Aviv --
ch. 16. Open source software evaluation / Karin van den Berg --
ch. 17. Open source web portals / Vanessa P. Braganholo, Bernardo Miranda, and Marta Mattoso --
ch. 18. Curious exceptions? Open source software and "open" technology / Alessandro Nuvolari, and Francesco Rullani --
ch. 19. Reducing transaction costs with GLW infrastructure / Marcus Vinicius Brandão Soares --
ch 20. Issues to consider when choosing an open source content management systems (CMSs) / Beatrice A. Boateng and Kwasi Boateng --
ch. 21. Evaluating open source software through prototyping / Ralf Carbon, Marcus Ciolkowski, Jens Heidrich, Isobel John, and Dirk Muthig --
ch. 22. Motives and methods for quantitative FLOSS research / Megan Conklin --
ch. 23. A generalized comparison of open source and commercial database management systems / Theodoros Evdoridis and Theodoros Tzourmanis --
ch. 24. Evaluation of a migration to open source software / Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, and Giancarlo Succi.
section 4. Laws and licensing practices affecting open source software uses --
ch. 25. Legal and economic justification for software protection / Bruno de Vuyst and Alea Fairchild --
ch. 26. OSS adoption in the legal services community / Ray Agostinelli --
ch. 27. Road of computer code featuring the political economy of copyleft and legal analysis of the general public license / Robert Cunningham --
ch. 28. Evolution of free software / Mathias Klang --
ch. 29. Free access to law and open source software / Daniel Poulin, Andrew Mowbray, and Pierre-Paul Lemyre --
ch. 30. Examining open source software licenses through the creative commons licensing model / Kwei-Jay Lin, Yi-Suan Lin, and Tung-Mei Ko --
ch. 31. FLOSS legal, and engineering terms and a license taxonomy / Darren Skidmore.
section 5. Public policy, the public sector, and government perspectives on open source software --
ch. 32. On the role of public policies supporting free/open source software / Stefano Comino, Fabio M. Manenti, and Alessandro Rossi --
ch. 33. Use of OSS by local e-administration : the French situation / Laurence Favier, Joël Mekhantar, and Marie-Noëlle Terrasse --
ch 34. Issues and aspects of open source software usage and adoption in the public sector / Gabor Laszlo --
ch. 35. Labor politics of scratching an itch / Casey O'Donnell --
ch. 36. Open source technology and ideology in the nonprofit context / Jonathan Peizer --
ch. 37. Governance and the open source repository / Todd Stephens.
section 6. Business approaches and applications involving open source software --
ch. 38. Analyzing firm participation in open source communities / Wouter Stam and Reuben van Wendel de Joode --
ch. 39. Community customers / Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers --
ch. 40. Open source software business model and customer involvement economics / Christoph Schlueter Langdon and Alexander Hars --
ch. 41. Investing in open source software companies : deal making from a venture capitalist's perspective / Mikko Puhakka, Hannu Jungman, and Marko Seppänen --
ch. 42. Revenue models in the open source software business / Risto Rajala, Jussi Nissilä, and Mika Westerlund --
ch. 43. Open source for accounting and enterprise systems / Thomas Tribunella and James Baroody --
ch. 44. Open source software and the corporate world / Sigrid Kelsey --
ch. 45. Business models in open source software value creation / Marko Seppanen, Nina Helander, and Saku Makinen --
ch. 46. Novell's open source evolution / Jacobus Andries du Preez.
section 7. Educational perspectives and practices related to open source software --
ch. 47. Communities of practice for open source software / Leila Lage Humes and Nicolau Reinhard --
ch. 48. Selecting open source software for use in schools / Kathryn Moyle --
ch. 49. Open source e-learning systems : evaluation of features and functionality / Phillip Olla --
ch. 50. Role of open source software in open access publishing / David J. Solomon --
ch. 51. Innovative desktop OSS implementation in a school / James Weller and Jean-Paul Van Belle --
ch. 52. Rapid insertion of leading edge industrial strength software into university classrooms / Dick B. Simmons, William Lively, Chris Nelson, and Joseph E. Urban --
ch. 53. Wikis as an exemplary model of open source learning / Robert Fitzgerald --
ch. 54. Perspective on software engineering education with open source software / Pankaj Kamthan --
About the contributors --