Mode of production of Free Software

This is a very important characteristic
• Without money
  Developers finance themselves by other means
  Similar to other hobbies
• Effort ist taken on a voluntary basis
  • Necessity of concrete solutions to problems
  • Selbstentfaltung of the developers
    Programming is fun (for some people)
    Other activities may serve the Selbstentfaltung also
• Manifold self-organized in small, independent groups
• International in the Internet

Often a high quality results

Quality is a direct result of the mode of production