Advancing Economic Research On The Free And Open Source Software Mode Of Production

Topics:
Small Business
Tags:
F/OSS,
Leadership,
Literature,
Management,
Motivation,
Open Source,
Stanford University
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Stanford University

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Overview: Early contributions to the academic literature on free/libre and open source software (F/LOSS) movements have been directed primarily at identifying the motivations that account for the sustained and often intensive involvement of many people in this non-contractual and unremunerated productive activity. This issue has been particularly prominent in economists' contributions to the literature, and it reflects a view that widespread voluntary participation in the creation of economically valuable goods that is to be distributed without charge constitutes a significant behavioral anomaly. Undoubtedly, the motivations of F/LOSS developers deserve to be studied more intensively, but not because their behaviors are unique, or historically unprecedented.

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Format: PDF | Size: 364KB | Date: Nov 2004 | Pages: 24

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