Berdou, Evangelia.

Organization in open source communities : at the crossroads of the gift and market economy / Evangelia Berdou. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - xv, 145 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; 15 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Technologies of communities and peer production: disentagling power relations in FL/OSS development -- FL/OSS as an object of research: methodological and disciplinary issues -- Commercial involvement and FL/OSS -- The community, the firm and the two economies -- Learning and the division of labour in FL/OSS -- The story so far: technologies of communities and peer production -- Conclusions.

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Open source software--Economic aspects.
Open source software--Social aspects.