How Free Software Developers Work
How free software developers work
The mobilization of "distant communities"
Didier DEMAZIERE (CNRS, laboratoire Printemps, UVSQ)
François HORN (CLERSE, IFRESI)
Nicolas JULLIEN (MARSOUIN)
Free software are programs distributed with their source code (the text of the program written
in a programming language that is comprehensible for humans) and with the authorization to
modify and redistribute them freely, which differentiates them radically from private or
"proprietary" software.
Their development is based on the participation of volunteers within a cooperative
organization that relies a great deal on the organizational facilities provided by the Internet.
This configuration leads to questions on the characteristics of the collective action that
enables the transition from individual voluntary commitments that are potentially volatile and
unstable to the completion of a collective production that involves continuity and
sustainability. The production of free......
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