[FYI] Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/lancashire/index.html  

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Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source 
Development  

First Monday, volume 6, number 12 (December 2001),  

David Lancashire Abstract  

The nexus of open source development appears to have shifted to 
Europe over the last ten years. This paper explains why this trend 
undermines cultural arguments about "hacker ethics" and "post-
scarcity" gift economies. It suggests that classical economic theory 
offers a more succinct explanation for the peculiar international 
distribution of open source development: hacking rises and falls 
inversely to its opportunity cost. This finding throws doubt on the 
Schumpeterian assumption that the efficiency of industrial systems 
can be measured without reference to the social institutions that 
bind them.  

David Lancashire is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political 
Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  

E-mail: david@socrates.berkeley.edu  

  Contents  

  Introduction  
  Cultural and Economic Theories of Open Source Development  
  A Framework for Analysis  
  The Raw Data  
  Economic Theory Revisited  
  Implications and Conclusions  

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