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‘Open Source Has Won and Lost the War’: Legitimising Commercial–communal Hybridisation in a FOSS Project

New Media and Society(2021)SCI 1区

Univ Canberra | Inst Polytech Paris | Univ Paris

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Information technology (IT) firms are paying developers in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, leading to the emergence of hybrid forms of work. In order to understand how the firm–project hybridisation process occurs, we present the results of an online survey of participants in the Debian project, as well as interviews with Debian Developers. We find that the intermingling of the commercial logic of the firm and the communal logic of the project requires rhetorical legitimation. We analyse the discourses used to legitimise firm–project cooperation as well as the organisational mechanisms which facilitate this cooperation. A first phase of legitimation, based on firm adoption of open licenses and developer self-fulfilment, aims to erase the commercial/communal divide. A second more recent phase seeks to professionalise work relations inside the project and, in doing so, challenges the social order which restricts participation in FOSS. Ultimately, hybridisation raises the question of the fair distribution of the profits firms derive from FOSS.
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Free software,hybrid organisations,open source,social change,work
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要点:本研究通过调查和访谈Debian项目的参与者,发现IT公司对FOSS项目开发者进行支付,导致工作形式出现混合化。作者分析了商业公司和项目共同体之间的混合过程,并研究了合作的合法性论述和组织机制。作者发现商业公司采用开放许可证和开发者的自我实现来试图消除商业/共同体之间的差别,进而推动了商业/共同体合作的合法性。最近的一个阶段则试图在项目内部专业化工作关系,同时挑战限制FOSS参与的社会秩序。最终,混合化引发了关于商业公司从FOSS中获利分配的公平性问题。

方法:通过在线调查和访谈Debian项目参与者进行研究。

实验:通过分析调查和访谈结果,揭示了商业公司和项目共同体混合化过程,并讨论了合作的合法性论述和组织机制的影响。