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Free/Libre and Open Source Software:
Survey and Study
Associated research and additional papers
This page contains links to research associated with the FLOSS study and further papers - in addition to the Final Report - based on the results of the FLOSS study.
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"Rational to collaborate: open
source, history and WIPO",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, The Reform of WIPO: Implementing the
Development Agenda,
Geneva, September 17, 2007
presentation:pdf
"An economic basis for open standards",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh,Open Standards International Symposium,
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT,
February 3, 2007
presentation: open office | pdf
"Sustainable Openness",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh,
Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington DC,
January 29, 2007
presentation: open office | pdf
"Cooking-pot markets:
collaborative ownership of
information goods",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh,
Wizards of OS 4, Berlin,
September 15, 2006
presentation: open office | pdf
"200 years of collaborative
ownership: from open source
steam engines to Wikipedia and
Free Software",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh,
Wikimania, Harvard Law School, Boston,
August 4, 2006
presentation: open office | pdf
"Who is behind open source?",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Gartner Open Source Summit,Barcelona, June 14, 2006
presentation: pdf
"Managing rights in free/libre/open source software",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Conference on Access to Knowledge,
Yale Law School,
New Haven, April 23, 2006
presentation: open office | pdf
"The Economics of Access to Knowledge",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Conference on Access to Knowledge,
Yale Law School,
New Haven, April 22, 2006
presentation: open office | pdf
"Copyleft and dual licensing
for publicly funded software",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Workshop on
Implementing Open Source Software in Public Administrations:
Problems and Solutions,
IDABC and Czech Ministry of Informatics,
Prague, 11 April, 2006
presentation: open office | pdf
"Sustaining a software ecosystem with FLOSS: skills and local economic growth",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, 7th Asia Open Source Symposium,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 7, 2006
presentation: open office | pdf
"Free/Libre/Open Source Software
skills and employment",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, International Conference on Open Source ICOS 2005,
Taipei, November 10, 2005
presentation: open office | pdf
"Open Source in European Government
and Global Collaboration in European Research",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, International Forum on Open Source Software, Shanghai, November 8, 2005
presentation: open office | pdf
"Free/Libre/Open Source Software
Worldwide impact study: FLOSSWorld",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, East Asia Workshop #1, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, December 17-18, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Managing rights in free/libre/open source software",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, PRIN Workshop, University of Bologna, November
25, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"The Economics of Free Software - and why it matters for developing
countries",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, World Summit on Information Society, UNU-INTECH
Parallel Event, Tunis, November 16, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Understanding Free Software Developers: Findings from the FLOSS
Study", Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
MERIT/Infonomics, University of Maastricht, 2005. A version of this paper
was published as:Ghosh, R.A., 2005. "Understanding Free Software
Developers: Findings from the FLOSS Study", in Making Sense of the
Bazaar: Perspectives on Open Source and Free Software, Joseph Feller,
Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Hissam and
Karim Lakhani (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press. pdf
"Free/Libre/Open Source Software Worldwide impact study: FLOSSWorld",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Open Source World Conference, Merida, Extremadura,
Spain, October 26, 2005
presentation: open
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"Barriers to the use of FLOSS in Government",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Open Source World Conference, Merida, Extremadura,
Spain, October 26, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Free/Libre/Open Source Software in Government",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, EuroOSCON, Amsterdam, October 18, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"The Economics of Free Software and why it matters for developing
countries",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Seminar on “Contributions to the Development
Agenda on Intellectual Property Rights”, Maastricht, Sep 23-25,
2005
presentation: open
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"Free/Libre/Open Source Software skills and employment",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, OSCON 2005 - 7th Open Source Convention, Portland,
Oregon, USA, August 3, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Public Administrations Partnering with Free Software/ Open Source
Developers",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, IDABC Workshop on Public Administrations and
OSS LinuxTag, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 23, 2005
presentation: open
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"Free/Libre/Open Source Software for developing countries: skills,
employment and costs",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, 2nd National Congress on Software Libre, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, June 7, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Free/Libre/Open Source Software for developing countries: skills,
employment and costs",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, 6th Forum Internacional Software Livre, Porto
Alegre, Brazil, June 2, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Free/Libre/Open Source Software in Government",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, International Symposium on Open Source Software,
Abano Terme (Padova), April 15, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Mechanics of Open Innovation: The case of Free Software",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Freedom, Creative Capital Conference, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, March 17, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Collaboration & Development in Free Software Communities",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Freedom, Sharing and Sustainability in the
Global Network Society, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, March
14, 2005
presentation: open
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"Free/Libre/Open Source software: engineering and economics",
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, International Unnayan, BITS Ranchi, Jharkhand,
India, February 4, 2005
presentation: open
office | pdf
"The Economics of Free Software"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the CARNET Users Conference, Zagreb, September
27, 2004
presentation: open
office | pdf
"The Economics of Free Software and why it matters for developing
countries"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the UNCTAD Expert Meeting on F/OSS, Geneva,
September 22, 2004
presentation: open
office | pdf
"Collaborative ownership and production: an 'unprotected' form of
creativity?"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the TACD Workshop on “The Future of
WIPO”, Geneva, September 14, 2004
presentation: open
office | pdf
"The technical impact of social links in free software development"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Oxford Workshop on Libre Software, Oxford
Internet Institute, June 25, 2004
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| pdf
"How Free Software Develops Skills and Local Economic Growth"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at Wizards of OS 3, Berlin, June 10, 2004
presentation: open
office | pdf
"The Economics of Free Software - and why it matters for developing
countries"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at USUARIA 2004 – Software Libre Conference,
Buenos Aires, May 27-29, 2004
presentation: open
office | pdf
"The Social Context of Free Software"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Open Source and Free Software conference
KMDI, University of Toronto, May 9, 2004
presentation: powerpoint
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"Why developing countries need to use and create Free Software
(and how it promotes Gross National Happiness)"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Department of Information Technology,
Ministry of Communications, Thimphu, Bhutan, April 9, 2004
presentation: powerpoint
| html | open
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"Open Source: Understanding Developers"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the EuroIndia conference, New Delhi, March
26, 2004
presentation: powerpoint
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"Open Source: an environment for skills development and economic
growth"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the EuroIndia conference, New Delhi, March
25, 2004
presentation: powerpoint
| html | open
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"Why developing countries need to use and create Free Software"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at LinuxAsia 2004, Delhi, February 11-13 2004
presentation: powerpoint
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Why
developing countries need to use and create Free Software
presented at IDLELO: the First African Conference on the Digital Commons,
Cape Town,
January 2004, by Rishab Ghosh.
presentation: powerpoint
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text: html
"Software patents, innovation and competition policy"
talk at the Nederlandse Mededingingsautoriteit (NMa, Dutch Competition
Authority) by Rishab Ghosh and Luc Soete, December 17, 2003
presentation: powerpoint
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"Open Source and Development"
presented at UNCTAD Regional Conference for Latin America
Rio de Janeiro, 25-27 November 2003, by Rishab Ghosh
presentation: powerpoint
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Open
Source: A case for developing countries
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the South Centre Briefing for WIPO delegates,
Geneva, November 3, 2003
presentation: powerpoint
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Open
Standards and Open Source Software in The Netherlands,
A quantitative study on attitudes and usage in Dutch authorities on Behalf
of the Office of the “Programma OSOSS”, the Ministry of the
Interior and Kingdom Relations, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs
Open
source: a case for transition economies
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the UNCTAD-UNECE "High-level Regional
Conference for Transition
Economies", Geneva, 20-21 October 2003
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"Open source metrics: where software engineering and economics
meet"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Meeting on Open Source Software with
EU
Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, September 25, 2003
text:
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Copyleft and dual licensing
for publicly funded software development (draft version)
by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
"Understanding Free Software Developers: Findings from the FLOSS
Study"
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Harvard Business School/MIT Sloan Free/Open
Source Software Conference: New Models of Software Development, June 19-20,
2003 [hbsghosh.ppt]
presentation: powerpoint
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"Why developing countries need FLOSS" - presented by Rishab
Ghosh at the Business Council for the UN "Net World Order" conference
at CeBIT America, New York, June 18, 2003
presentation: powerpoint
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Related research by other organisations
The following surveys have built upon the FLOSS developer survey:
2003: FLOSS-US survey from Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
(SIEPR)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/
2004: FLOSS-JP survey from Mitsubishi Research Institute
http://oss.mri.co.jp/floss-jp/index-en.html
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