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

Demazière, Didier; Horn, François; Jullien, Nicolas

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1301572

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

16 Pages Posted: 17 Nov 2008

See all articles by Didier Demazière

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

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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