Gift economies in the development of open source software: Anthropological reflections
Building on Eric Raymond's work this article discusses the motivation and rewards that lead some software engineers to participate in the open source movement. It is suggested that software engineers in the open source movement may have sub-groupings which parallel kinship groups such as lineag...
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Elsevier
2003
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