TY - JOUR AU - Bonaccorsi, Andrea AU - Rossi, Cristina PY - 2005/10/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Altruistic individuals, selfish firms? (originally published in Volume 9, Number 1, January 2004) JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v0i0.1476 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1476 SP - AB - During 2002, we conducted a survey on 146 Italian firms supplying Open Source software. This paper compares our data on firms’ motivations with data emerging from surveys made on individual programmers. We analyse the role played by different classes of motivations (social, economic and technological) in determining the involvement of different groups of agents in Open Source activities. ER -