A recent literature has described, on an empirical level, the way in which local industries are organised into ?clusters??, inserted within global industrial and commercial networks. These studies have shown that geographical proximity by itself is not a sufficient condition for co-ordination...

An open source software is defined by the availability of its source-code that cannot be privately appropriated. Its production is based on a special cooperative organisation mode, called the ?bazaar??, which functions particularly well in the context of Internet. Its functional viability till...