LOST IN TRANSLATION? APPROPRIATION OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AT HEWLETT-PACKARD.

The article presents a study of how Hewlett-Packard (HP) created their proprietary "Progressive Open Source" (POS) process using the open source software development approach as a template. The longitudinal case study method is used to investigate the transformations involved in making the open source approach compatible with the corporate environment of HP. Actor-network theory is cited and the construction of POS through interactions and translation is analyzed in terms of meanings assigned to the work.