%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T Contrasting Proprietary and Free/Open Source Game Development %A Alessandro Rossi %A Marco Zamarian %X Free/Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) development practices are gaining momentum in the computer game industry. This traditionally proprietary industry is becoming more interested in the F/LOSS paradigm for developing complex software projects. Software practitioners, both managers and developers, need to understand the potential in order to benefit properly from incorporating F/LOSS practices into their proprietary production cycle. Comparisons between proprietary and F/LOSS software development processes are usually characterized in terms of the relationship between property rights, revenue distribution and power within a network of actors. By contrast, coordination and control practices, mediating artifacts and development tools, and the interactions between the different actors involved in the development are often neglected. Proprietary and F/LOSS development differ in terms of the knowledge exchanges between the relevant actors and the different strategies employed to overcome information asymmetries. Recognizing this difference is an essential step for evaluating how proprietary, closed-source software houses can benefit by integrating various F/LOSS practices into their development agenda. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 10/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/192 %N October 2008 %9 Articles %1 University of Trento Alessandro Rossi is Assistant Professor of Management at the Faculties of Economics and Engineering, University of Trento. His research interests are related to managerial cognition and to the economics and management of innovation and new technologies. He is currently investigating how organizations design and produce complex artifacts, with particular reference to knowledge intensive industries and to the open source/open content paradigm of production. %2 University of Trento Marco Zamarian is Associate Professor of Organization Theory and Behavior and Human Resource Management at the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento. His current research interests include organizational learning, knowledge creation and replication in geographically distributed contexts, the impact of IT artifacts on organizational knowledge, industrial clusters, and the evaluation of the effects of public subsidies to the private sector, in particular for technology acquisition and research and development activities.