Firms' decision to contribute to Free Libre Open Source Software communities

Michail Batikas; Francesc Miralles

Firms' decision to contribute to Free Libre Open Source Software communities

Michail Batikas^*
, Francesc Miralles

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The last years Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has rapidly been shifting from a model driven purely by the developer community and university support to one where a main driver is industry. Even though a lot of firms have the chance to follow a free ride approach, they choose to contribute to the FLOSS communities with various ways. So, an obvious question is why firms decide to contribute to FLOSS communities. Which are these factors that lead them to be heavily involved in the FLOSS communities? The theory of Planned Behavior along with the Tragedy of the Commons and Digital Commons, and the state-of-the-art research on FLOSS 2.0 is the theoretical basis of this research-in-progress work.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008 - Galway, Ireland Duration: 9 Jun 2008 → 11 Jun 2008

Conference

Conference	16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Galway
Period	9/06/08 → 11/06/08

Keywords

Communities of practice
Innovation & Open Source Software
Open content licensing
Organisational/business OSS models
Systems and business models

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Firms' decision to contribute to Free Libre Open Source Software communities

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