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Autore principale: Alexandre Oliva
Natura: Artículo científico
Lingua:en
Pubblicazione: Universidade Nove de Julho 2006
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contents A beautiful mind meets free software: game theory, competition and cooperation Alexandre Oliva Ingeniería Adam Smith Competition Game theory Cooperation Russel Crowe, playing John Forbes Nash Junior (aka JohnNash) in Ron Howards’ motion picture A beautiful mind,claims that Adam Smith’s theory that “in competition, individualambition serves the common good” is incomplete,and that “the best result will come from everybody in thegroup doing what’s best for himself and the group”. AdamSmith’s motto synthesizes pretty well what happens in thecompetition-driven proprietary software development market,whereas Nash’s adds the cooperation that is so commoneven among competitors in free software markets. Everycommercial free software developer tries to obtain its edge bydeveloping better software, thus contributing to the softwarepool that even its competitors will be able to build upon. I.e.,every free software developer does what’s best for himself,and the group, so the best outcome is achieved. The papershows how the GNU General Public License (or GNU GPL orsimply GPL) licensing model can be economically favorableto developers over proprietary and even Berkeley SoftwareDistribution (BSD)-like licenses. 2006 artículo científico 1678-5428 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81009903 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=810 Exacta application/pdf Universidade Nove de Julho Exacta (Brasil) Num.Esp Vol.4
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publishDate 2006
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spellingShingle A beautiful mind meets free software: game theory, competition and cooperation
Alexandre Oliva
Ingeniería
Adam Smith
Competition
Game theory
Cooperation
A beautiful mind meets free software: game theory, competition and cooperation Alexandre Oliva Ingeniería Adam Smith Competition Game theory Cooperation Russel Crowe, playing John Forbes Nash Junior (aka JohnNash) in Ron Howards’ motion picture A beautiful mind,claims that Adam Smith’s theory that “in competition, individualambition serves the common good” is incomplete,and that “the best result will come from everybody in thegroup doing what’s best for himself and the group”. AdamSmith’s motto synthesizes pretty well what happens in thecompetition-driven proprietary software development market,whereas Nash’s adds the cooperation that is so commoneven among competitors in free software markets. Everycommercial free software developer tries to obtain its edge bydeveloping better software, thus contributing to the softwarepool that even its competitors will be able to build upon. I.e.,every free software developer does what’s best for himself,and the group, so the best outcome is achieved. The papershows how the GNU General Public License (or GNU GPL orsimply GPL) licensing model can be economically favorableto developers over proprietary and even Berkeley SoftwareDistribution (BSD)-like licenses. 2006 artículo científico 1678-5428 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81009903 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=810 Exacta application/pdf Universidade Nove de Julho Exacta (Brasil) Num.Esp Vol.4
title A beautiful mind meets free software: game theory, competition and cooperation
topic Ingeniería
Adam Smith
Competition
Game theory
Cooperation
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81009903