Orman, Wafa Hakim - In: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (2008) 1, pp. 1875-1875
Much work has been done in recent times to answer the question of why people contribute, and continue to contribute to open-source and free software, despite the lack of immediate financial gain in most cases. Lerner and Tirole (2002) hypothesize that open-source contributions act as a form of...