Title
How Free Software Developers Work: The Mobilization of ‘Distant Communities’
Author
Didier Demazière, University of Versailles, François Horn, University of Lille III, and Nicolas Jullien, LUSSI, Telecom Bretagne; M@rsouin
Date
12/02/2008
(Original Publish Date: 7/1/2006)
(Original Publish Date: 7/1/2006)
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
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