How Free Software Developers Work: The Mobilization of 'Distant Communities'

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Didier Demazière

University of Versailles

François Horn

University of Lille III

Nicolas Jullien

M@rsouin (Môle Amoricain de Recherche sur la Société de l'information et les Usages d'Internet); IMT Atlantique

Date Written: July 2006

Abstract

We analyze the question of the incitations for a developer to participate to FLOSS (Free-Libre-Open Source Software) development. We have interviewed some French developers and personalities advocating this form of development (FLOSS "figures"). Our goal was to determine their motivations, the relative importance of these motivation, and the characteristics of people involved in such projects.

Keywords: FLOSS, incentives, developers, production organization.

JEL Classification: O31, M54, L86

Suggested Citation

Demazière, Didier and Horn, François and Jullien, Nicolas and Jullien, Nicolas, How Free Software Developers Work: The Mobilization of 'Distant Communities' (July 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1301572 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1301572

Didier Demazière

University of Versailles ( email )

23 rue du refuge
78035 Versailles cedex, 78120
France

François Horn

University of Lille III ( email )

Domaine du Pont de bois
Villeneuve D'Ascq Cedex, 59653
France

Nicolas Jullien (Contact Author)

IMT Atlantique ( email )

Technopole de Brest Iroise
Brest, 29238
France

M@rsouin (Môle Amoricain de Recherche sur la Société de l'information et les Usages d'Internet) ( email )

France

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