: Free/libre or open-source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in a growing proportion, by firms that hire programmers for their own objectives of development in open source or for contributing to open-source projects in the context of...

Free/Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) diffusion represents one of the main evolutions of the Information Technology (IT) industry in recent years. Such an approach appears exemplary in the context of a knowledge based economy, for a growing number of industrial activities, for which the scope...