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Information And Cooperation In The Free/Open Source Software Development Communities: An Overview Of The Brazilian Scenario

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Proceedings of the 5th National Meeting on Education and Research on Information Science (V CINFORM), Salvador, BA, Brazil, June 28-30, 2004, (2004)Portuguese.

Abstract

Due the free software production explosion, thousands of systems developers around the world are concern about organizing themselves in communities which centralize and facilitate the exchange of information related to the software production. This theme has been studied at various names as collective invention, gift economy, etc. In Brazil, although the discussion about free/open source software has getting wider, initiatives that promote the community�s development haven�t reached proportions that allow the massive participation of the developers. This article analyses, at the perspective of the information flow and knowledge creation, the success of the american model for this communities, evaluating its impact in the Brazilian context and proposing adaptations

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