Free software on the market-side: the failure-story of free software services companies in France

Marie Coris

Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2009, vol. 18, issue 6, 547-564

Abstract: Considering the French case of Free Software Services Companies (FSSCs), this paper analyses free software's market-oriented aspects. We try to answer a fundamental question for free software: does the software industry have room for an alternative economic model based on the communities' ethic? Analysing FSSCs' competition with traditional IT Services Companies (ITSCs) and regarding the integration of free software in the ITSCs' product offer, we show how the software sector's structures could explain both FSSCs' and ITSCs' recent changes.

Keywords: free software; organisational production; software industry; communities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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