An Empirical Study of a Free Software Company
Institution: | University of Oslo |
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Year: | 1000 |
Keywords: | VDP::420 |
Record ID: | 1275507 |
Full text PDF: | http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-26146 https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/10146 https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/10146/1/pakusch.pdf |
Free software has matured well into the commercial software market, yet little qualitative research exists which accurately describes the state of commercial free software today. For this thesis, an instrumental case study was performed on a prominent free software company in Norway. The study found that the commercial free software market is largely driven by social networks, which have a social capital in its own that attracts more people, which in turn become members of the social network and belivers of free software.