Person

Fred Pailler

Alternate Name:
Frederic Pailler
Report

The coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms


Big tech firms such as Amazon are using cloud computing and 'software as a service' to transform open source software, which is intended to be shared and modified, into closed assets. This report maps how firms are collaborating with communities of unpaid volunteers to produce open source code, used in most IT applications and infrastructures.

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