Government policy toward Open Source Software: The puzzles of neutrality and competition

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The benefits and risks of governments' policy favoring Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) from the economic, technological and political viewpoints are highlighted to analyze whether the same policy goals can be achieved through government support of FLOSS. However, it is argued that the government should take into account society's long-term interest, not merely its own interest as a consumer.

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Comparing motivations of individual programmers and firms to take part in the open source movement: From community to business

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Empirical evidence on the incentives of the firms that engage in Open Source activities is provided, comparing the firms' motivations with the results of the surveys on individual programmers. The aim is to analyze the role played by different classes of incentives in determining the involvement in the movement of different typologies of agents.

Management dynamics, Venture Analysis, Management, Business enterprises, Company business management

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Hierarchy and centralization in free and open source software team communications

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Social network analyses of bug-fixing interactions were conducted from three repositories, Sourceforge, GNU Savannah and Apache Bugzilla. It is found that Open Source Software teams are highly centralized, projects are mostly quite hierarchical on four measures of hierarchy and level of centralization is negatively correlated with project size.

Management-Communications, Technology application, Organizational communication

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