Free Software as a Systematically Important Factor of the Information Environment of Science and Society: Current Situation and Outlook

Kirill A. Kalyuzhnyi ()
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Kirill A. Kalyuzhnyi: Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in Science and Technology

Science Governance and Scientometrics Journal, 2014, vol. 9, issue 2, 240-264

Abstract: The article looks at the free software community and its role as a driving force for development of national economy in modern Russia. The chapters discuss various types of free and non-free software and their distinctive features; importance of free and opensource software in science researches, public administration and commerce; outlook for development of the free software community.

Keywords: Free software; freeware; GNU GPL; open source; information technologies; the «Information Russia» program; national program platform; e-government; information technologies in science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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