Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 7576594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rishab Aiyer Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rishab Aiyer |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH R A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cooking pot markets
It has long been assumed that there is something beyond economics involved in the proliferation of free goods and services on the Internet. Although Netscape's recent move to give away the source code for its browser shows that the corporate world now believes that it is possible to make money with free software - previously eyed with cautious pessimism - money is not the prime motivator of most producers of the Internet's free goods, and neither…
Cooking pot markets
It has long been assumed that there is something beyond economics involved in the proliferation of free goods and services on the Internet. Although Netscape's recent move to give away the source code for its browser shows that the corporate world now believes that it is possible to make money with free software - previously eyed with cautious pessimism - money is not the prime motivator of most producers of the Internet's free goods, and neither…
Clustering and dependencies in free/open source software development
This paper addresses the problem of measurement of non-monetary economic activity, specifically in the area of free/open source software communities. It describes the problems associated with research on these communities in the absence of measurable monetary transactions, and suggests possible alternatives. A class of techniques using software source code as factual documentation of economic activity is described and a methodology for the extrac…
Licence fees and GDP per capita
There is a strong case for free software (also known as open source or libre software) being deployed widely in developing countries. This paper describes three reasons in particular: free software is a skills enabling platform; it is far cheaper; and it is more adaptable to local needs. The free software development community provides an environment of intensive interactive skills development at little explicit cost, which is particularly useful…
First Monday News
The Orbiten free software survey
Free software is supposedly developed by a loosely organised "community" of programmers. However it has been quite unknown until now who, except for some well-known celebrities, belongs to this community, and more importantly how contributions are distributed. The authors present a first survey of free software authorship, with the emphasis not on building a census or even a "hall of fame", but on identifying patterns of concentration and distrib…
First Monday news
First Monday will make available a CD-ROM containing a full archive of the journal's first four years, 1996-1999, in May 2000
Cooking pot markets
It has long been assumed that there is something beyond economics involved in the proliferation of free goods and services on the Internet. Although Netscape's recent move to give away the source code for its browser shows that the corporate world now believes that it is possible to make money with free software - previously eyed with cautious pessimism - money is not the prime motivator of most producers of the Internet's free goods, and neither…
Celebrating First Monday
Interviews with Linus Torvalds
"Economics is dead, long live economics! A commentary on Michael Goldhaber's "The attention economy
A commentary on the Attention economy by Michael Goldhaber evaluating economic concepts in the context of the information age
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"Economics is dead, long live economics! A commentary on Michael Goldhaber's "The attention economy
A commentary on the Attention economy by Michael Goldhaber evaluating economic concepts in the context of the information age
Cooking pot markets
It has long been assumed that there is something beyond economics involved in the proliferation of free goods and services on the Internet. Although Netscape's recent move to give away the source code for its browser shows that the corporate world now believes that it is possible to make money with free software - previously eyed with cautious pessimism - money is not the prime motivator of most producers of the Internet's free goods, and neither…
Celebrating First Monday
Interviews with Linus Torvalds
First Monday news
First Monday will make available a CD-ROM containing a full archive of the journal's first four years, 1996-1999, in May 2000
First Monday News
The Orbiten free software survey
Free software is supposedly developed by a loosely organised "community" of programmers. However it has been quite unknown until now who, except for some well-known celebrities, belongs to this community, and more importantly how contributions are distributed. The authors present a first survey of free software authorship, with the emphasis not on building a census or even a "hall of fame", but on identifying patterns of concentration and distrib…
Clustering and dependencies in free/open source software development
This paper addresses the problem of measurement of non-monetary economic activity, specifically in the area of free/open source software communities. It describes the problems associated with research on these communities in the absence of measurable monetary transactions, and suggests possible alternatives. A class of techniques using software source code as factual documentation of economic activity is described and a methodology for the extrac…
Licence fees and GDP per capita
There is a strong case for free software (also known as open source or libre software) being deployed widely in developing countries. This paper describes three reasons in particular: free software is a skills enabling platform; it is far cheaper; and it is more adaptable to local needs. The free software development community provides an environment of intensive interactive skills development at little explicit cost, which is particularly useful…
Cooking pot markets
It has long been assumed that there is something beyond economics involved in the proliferation of free goods and services on the Internet. Although Netscape's recent move to give away the source code for its browser shows that the corporate world now believes that it is possible to make money with free software - previously eyed with cautious pessimism - money is not the prime motivator of most producers of the Internet's free goods, and neither…
Cooking pot markets
It has long been assumed that there is something beyond economics involved in the proliferation of free goods and services on the Internet. Although Netscape's recent move to give away the source code for its browser shows that the corporate world now believes that it is possible to make money with free software - previously eyed with cautious pessimism - money is not the prime motivator of most producers of the Internet's free goods, and neither…
Computer Science (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Software (4 works) · Barter (3 works) · Commerce (3 works) · Data science (3 works) · Economic theories and models (3 works) · Free market (3 works)