Open Source Software Development: Historical andCurrent Perspectives for Academic Librarianship
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2006-11-09
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
Open source software production is a successful new innovation model which disproves
that only private ownership of intellectual property rights fosters innovations. The emergence
of Open Source Software (OSS) has gained the attention of research librarians
and created new opportunities for libraries to make optimum utilization of the software
keeping in view of the benefits not only to the users, but also to the libraries with
respect to time, space and accessibility. The paper attempts to discuss the concept of
Open Source Software in the modern era by highlighting the relevance of it to the
library profession by tracing historical developments of Open Source Software’s. It also
elucidates the development of open source operating systems over a period of time and
provides briefly the Open Source Software projects available in the Internet era for the
professionals of different disciplines.
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Library Software, Open Source Software, Digital Library