Free Software, Business Capital, and Institutional Change: A Veblenian Analysis of the Software Industry.
Free software, unlike proprietary software under exclusive copyright control, exemplifies a form of productive and innovative activity that is based upon mutual sharing of technological knowledge. Free software engineers, who get connected through various software-development projects, voluntarily c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Economic Issues Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 831 - 859 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2012
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