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Re: [ox-en] Measuring the commercial influences on Free Software



Hi list!

4 months (140 days) ago Stefan Merten wrote:
During the P2P workshop an issue which came up several times were about
how big the commercial influences on Free Software are. An issue which
comes up on this list also again and again (hi StefanS :-) ).

On the workshop there were to empirical studies about this which
fairly contradicted each other. It quickly became clear that it is
methodologically difficult to set up a good survey on this issue in
the first place.

One of the interesting insights was that part of this difficulties
come from the fact that peer production and capitalist production are
closely interwoven and so it is very hard to make useful separations
at all.

Another interesting insight was that peer production influences the
companies as well. It would be thus also interesting to study these
influences as well - though this is probably even harder.

I for one would it find it great if there would be an empirical study
on Free Software products which answers the questions most relevant to
Oekonux. I'll create a Wiki page under
http://en.wiki.oekonux.org/Oekonux/Research after gathering a few
responses here. May be some researcher out there finds this and does
us the favor.

Here are some requirements which come to my mind:

Unless I overlooked something there were no additional ideas here :-/ .
Nonetheless I set up

	http://en.wiki.oekonux.org/Oekonux/Research/MeasuringCommercialInfluences

Feel free to add more points there or reply to this mail.


						Grüße

						Stefan

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