Open Source software development ? just another case of collective invention?
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Open source software; collective invention; intrinsic motivation; copyleft; conditional cooperation.;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INO-2005-06-05 (Innovation)
- NEP-TID-2005-06-05 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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