Help Request for Academic Research

[Brendan Scott]

Jon Oakes wrote:
> Hello,
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> My name is Jon Oakes and I am conducting research on how business managers should formulate strategies around F/OSS. I am currently in my second year at Harvard Business School and the project is overseen by the Strategy department. 
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> My goal is to generate a very pragmatic guide for non-technical managers to use in their assessment of the risk/reward of using and contributing to the F/OSS community. I hope to develop the research into a paper that can be published sometime next year or possibly into a case study.
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> I am hoping to find a few "experts" that I can interview for 15 to 30 minutes (more if you can spare it!) to get some perspective and ask some technical questions. I am looking for legal, technical and strategic perspectives.
>  
> Please respond to my Yahoo! mail address or to my school email which is joakes at mba2006.hbs.edu.
>  
> Thanks,

Hi Jon

I have a paper which advocates the release of software under open source in certain circumstances, and goes over some of the reasons.  Might be of use:

http://opensourcelaw.biz/publications/papers/BScottSwareAccessRegime031001.pdf


Regards


Brendan