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Social capital as a factor of motivation for free/libre/open source software development

izvorni znanstveni rad

izvorni znanstveni rad

Social capital as a factor of motivation for free/libre/open source software development

Vrsta prilog sa skupa (u zborniku)
Tip izvorni znanstveni rad
Godina 2013
Nadređena publikacija Prpoceedings of the 4th European Conference of Computer Science (ECCS '13) Recent Advances in Information Science
Stranice str. 208-215
ISSN 1790-5109
Status objavljeno

Sažetak

This paper provides an overview of the main principles governing free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) movement, and places its theory and practice into the context of Manuel Castells’s network society. Itanalyses various motivators for FLOSS development, and shows that individual motivation for FLOSS development is dialectically intertwined with organizational structures and ethical values. On such basis, it arrives to the conclusion that motivation for participation in FLOSS development is simultaneously individual and social, economic and political. People have multiple and diverse motives for FLOSS development and their combinations may create radically different kinds of social capital. Consequently, social capital within the FLOSS movement is far from homogenous, and it is more accurate to talk of multiplicity of social capitals and various cross-sections between them. Based on such conclusion, the paper identifies the main methodological restrictions and proposes directions for future research.

Ključne riječi

Social capital ; FLOSS ; motivation ; network society ; hacker ethic ; free software ; the Cathedral ; the Bazaar