Introduction -- Technologies of communities and peer production: disentagling power relations in FL/OSS development -- FL/OSS as an object of research : methodological and disciplinary issues -- Commercial involvement and FL/OSS -- The community, the firm and the two economies -- Learning and...

This book presents learning and knowledge management from a point of view where the basic tools and applications are provided by open source technologies. It explains an intense orientation to the critical issues of the open source paradigm: open source tools, applications, social networks, and...