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The Economics of Free & Open Source Software

• The Cost of Free Software – Support Costs – an Opinion – from InformIT.com
• Economic Model for the Trade in Free Goods & Services Over the Internet
• Who Gave Microsoft Control of your IT Costs? You Did
• Software Libre & Commercial Viability
• The Economics of Software Development (PDF)
• The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development – First Monday
• Open Source Software – New Rules for the Market Economy? (MS Doc Format)
• Open Source Business – Open, but Not As Usual – The Economist (see also: Mitch Kapor’s Weblog – Does the Open Source Model Apply Beyond Software? & Open Source Software – Going Hybrid – The Economist)
• Making Money with Open Source – Psych+Tech
• Political Arguments for FOSS

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